Prague, Czech Republic, Oxford, England (openPR) 6 June 2007

AllPeers, a software manufacturer specializing gave up private media sharing networks today announced the immediate availability of Mozilla Firefox ® with AllPeers. The software bundle combines the Firefox web browser and the single add-on AllPeers in a download. The provision of these two award-winning open source applications together facilitates the formation and development of browser-based, private file sharing and turns Firefox into a social web browser.

AllPeers adds social networking and file-sharing capabilities, the Firefox user experience. Before publishing this AllPeers bundle was only for existing users of Firefox. New users were required to download Firefox before installing AllPeers. With the introduction of Firefox with AllPeers new users can now simultaneously switch to the world’s best browser and gain the advantages of AllPeers private file sharing functions.

“About 10% of new AllPeers users download to install our Firefox application,” said Cedric Maloux, CEO and co-founder of AllPeers. “The popularity of our application of the functions has helped AllPeers achieve an organic growth of one new user every two minutes, and we expect this rate to accelerate significantly with the added ease of installation with the new bundle granted. We look forward to it make it easier for new users AllPeers and Firefox experience. “

AllPeers is a popular Firefox add-on, users can browse the shared files to their family and friends in the same way that some of the standard web pages. Since its launch eight months ago, the AllPeers Firefox add-on generates more than 350,000 downloads is unique. The application uses its own secure implementation of the popular BitTorrent protocol to transfer files between users, eliminating the need to transfer files to a central server and allows users to share files and web pages with friends and family to invite private and secure. Unique “Drag-and-Share” functionality and encrypted chat have also helped drive AllPeers into fashion.

AllPeers Firefox expanded in a meaningful way for our users by providing built-in file-sharing capabilities, “said Christopher Beard, Mozilla vice president of marketing and product management. “Your version of Firefox with AllPeers allows shows the positive cycle of the Firefox platform. Users and developers both benefit from open architecture of our add-ons ecosystem”

The release of Firefox with AllPeers coincides with the introduction of new features that pool the AllPeers, simply by using the users, not the increase of AllPeers. These new features allow users AllPeers to import contacts from leading e-mail programs and files directly with other users by entering their e-mails.

Mozilla Firefox with AllPeers is now available and can be downloaded at www.allpeers.com.

About AllPeers

AllPeers is a free, open source extension for Firefox, private and secure file sharing with friends and family. AllPeers runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux and is currently available in 14 languages. The company employs 15 people in the UK and the Czech Republic, with financing from venture capital funds Mangrove Capital Partners and Index Ventures. AllPeers was for best new Firefox add-on by Computer World, one of the top ten extensions by Wired News and the best free file-sharing application by PCWorld. The company has been selected as Red Herring 100 Europe finalist. For more information about AllPeers, visit the website at www.allpeers.com or “Peer Pressure”, the AllPeers blog, blog in www.allpeers.com.

Media Contact:

Steve Kerns

Marketing Alchemist for AllPeers

415-970-0706

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