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FrostWire
FrostWire performs a Smart Search upon the most relevant torrent search results that come from BitTorrent search engines, meaning it remembers every file contained by every torrent it scans increasing greatly the chance to find what you are looking for, super fast.
As FrostWire fetches search results from the search engines, it uses these results to crawl the Azureus DHT to learnabout the contents indexed by these torrents. FrostWire will not use the bandwidth of the search engines in this process,it will only use the torrent info hash to perform DHT queries, meaning,
As FrostWire fetches search results from the search engines, it uses these results to crawl the Azureus DHT to learnabout the contents indexed by these torrents. FrostWire will not use the bandwidth of the search engines in this process,it will only use the torrent info hash to perform DHT queries, meaning,
What's New
Version 5.3.6: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- Java 1.6 or later
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| Downloads:178,361 |
| Version Downloads:636 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Free |
| Date:15 May 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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FrostWire performs a Smart Search upon the most relevant torrent search results that come from BitTorrent search engines, meaning it remembers every file contained by every torrent it scans increasing greatly the chance to find what you are looking for, super fast.
As FrostWire fetches search results from the search engines, it uses these results to crawl the Azureus DHT to learnabout the contents indexed by these torrents. FrostWire will not use the bandwidth of the search engines in this process,it will only use the torrent info hash to perform DHT queries, meaning, .torrent files are fetched only from the DHT, not from search engine's web servers, it's searching powers will not depend from a central entity.
As FrostWire fetches search results from the search engines, it uses these results to crawl the Azureus DHT to learnabout the contents indexed by these torrents. FrostWire will not use the bandwidth of the search engines in this process,it will only use the torrent info hash to perform DHT queries, meaning, .torrent files are fetched only from the DHT, not from search engine's web servers, it's searching powers will not depend from a central entity.
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JCH2 reviewed on 27 Mar 2012
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I guess it makes sense to become BitTorrent clients, as that is the only peer-to-peer file sharing system with any kind of claim to having a legitimate purpose.
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LizBo reviewed on 24 Aug 2011
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zexipluzo reviewed on 07 Aug 2011
-Chatroom I just wanna download torrent
-ForstWire Theme It's look like I use Windows
-Loading ForstWire is too slow
-Forst Advertising
I don't like Forstwire !!!!
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binniebabi reviewed on 06 Jun 2011
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1359
If so, you might not be able to run the latest version of FrostWire. I seem to recall having this issue with the last few LimeWire releases when I was running Leopard.
In the Java preferences you can set which Java version is being used.
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* New setting to turn off automatic installer downloads.
* New setting to limit the speed of BitTorrent downloads.
* New Galician flag added.
* UX improvements when creating new folders on the Phones and Tablets UI.
* Fixes bug when dropping files on an Android device that hasn’t been
selected.
* UX change. FrostWire will now seed torrents that have not been removed
from it’s download manager. Completed torrents now will appear as
“Completed/Seeding”
* UX change. Default save location folder in Windows Vista and Windows7 is
now the user’s default “~Downloads/FrostWire” folder.
* UX improvements when showing FrostClick overlays. No more flickering.
Overlays are now shown in an animated slideshow. More than 2 artists
can now be promoted.
* Fixes bug when copying .apk files from Android device to desktop computer.
* Fixes bug when saving torrents to it’s default Save location if that
folder has been deleted.
* Fixes bug on which removed Torrent downloads would reappear.
* Updated Mojito DHT integration. Mojito DHT is now active.
* Upgraded anti-spam mechanisms.
* Removed all remnant code related to LimeWire Store.
* Cleanup to use a single logging library.
* Fixes newly introduced bug where it would not recursively share the
files in a folder. Thanks File_Girl71.
* Fixes newly introduced bug where it wouldn’t correctly display the
title of a file on the Playlist.
* Fixes issue where it would not kill torrent uploads until
the next restart.
* Fixes NPE on HttpFetcher.fetch()
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Anyone else? Any reports from 10.6 users?
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Sir-Sixty-Nine rated on 24 May 2012
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Quiiick rated on 19 Apr 2012
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