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FrostWire is a community driven project based on source code released by LimeWire LLC to create and maintain a Gnutella client according to the open standards of an international community.
Version 4.17:
- Upgrades on our update notification system, capability for featured content and recommendations
- Updated Playlist (drag & drop support, and Playlist rearrange options)
- New Media Player with volume and seek controls (Plays mp3, ogg and wav)
- Support for private torrents
- Greater control over your Shared files
- Add Magnets to Open Dialog
- Improvements in bootstrapping
- Warn When Too Many Files Shared
- Make Ultrapeers ignore partial results
- Mojito DHT capable (still not active for 4.17.0)
- More translations to be available for the community on launchpad.net. Many improvements for Spanish, and Italian and Chinese have been finally been added among others
- Reduce query traffic by knowing firewalled state; implement leafs informing ups of firewall status.
- Recognize flv as a video extension.
- Enable removal from playlist via the ‘Delete’ or ‘Backspace’ key.
- (Bittorrent) Extended BEncoding to support rational numbers.
- Add support for alternate location lookup for BitTorrents.
- Use less memory for large number of leaf connections.
- General Save folder improvements.
- Smoother Icon Tray Icons for Linux and Windows
- FrostWire now runs under Java SE 6 on Mac OS X (however SE6 is temperamental; it exhibits some strange connection issues). More integration with the MacOSX dock and other components
- Speedup Magnet/Torrents at startup.
- Add partial search results.
- Exclude magnet downloads from being purged after 7 days.
- Incremental search on the Settings window
- Default setting tweaks for users with high speed connections (T1,T3) to make the most out of their bandwith
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Java 1.5 or later
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| FrostWire User Reviews (22 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 22 2008 |
IGREG I do not know if I want to use this anymore. I am afraid of the new setup window, it looks like it wants to take control of files on my computer. I decided not to complete the setup and may delete it entirely.
(Version 4.17) | |
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 | Apr 29 2007 |
HOLYPOLY The chat window takes years to load with this new version, and the chat option can't be turned off - it loads even if the corresponding box in "Community Chat..." is unchecked. Deleting the .plist file doesn't help. Version 4.13.1.6 didn't have this problem.
(Version 4.13.1.7) | |
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| Aug 21 2008 |
CASTLE ROSE I don't know what computer your running FW on but it works fine for my w/o any problems. I'm using an old G4 Cube and chat opens fine, and closes correctly. Maybe the problem is that you don't have your ports and firewall setup correctly. What ever your problems are it's not the programs fault. FrostWire heeps getting better and better for me. Keep up the good work guys!
(Version 4.17) | |
| Apr 21 2007 |
ROCKSOUNDER The best place I have found for reviews of Macintosh software. I've been relying on "descriptions." rather than reviews, and on reviews published in magazines. It is refreshing the reactions of those who actively use the programs.
(Version 4.13.1.7) | |
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| Apr 19 2007 |
Downloading a couple items and it uses easily 50-70% of processor. 10.4.7
(Version 4.13.1.7) | |
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| Apr 12 2007 |
ANF2RES Although the requires for FrostWire 4.13.1.7 are stated as OS 10.3 and Java 1.4 and later, this version will not load on my computer running OS 10.3.9 and Jave 1.4.2. Any comments?
(Version 4.13.1.7) | |
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| Apr 17 2007 |
WONDERING It looks like it needs Java 1.5.x. (from Frostwire website, and MU has updated their reqs to show that now.) I am not sure if Apple has issued a Java 1.5.x for Panther, I know they have issued it for Tiger. I have always been a little mystified by the way Apple or Java or both come up with version ID: (from Apple site:) : "Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 3 includes version 1.5.0_05 and improves functionality of J2SE 5.0 on Mac OS X v 10.4 Tiger 10.4.2 and later. This release does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 1.4.2."
(Version 4.13.1.7) | |
 | Mar 12 2007 |
MADSENJ Better than LimeWire b/c it does not nag you to register, otherwise it is exactly the same.
(Version 4.13.1.6) | |
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| Jan 23 2007 |
GANATRONIC This is the app I used with linux, and I was always happy with it. So once I switched to Mac I opted for this over limewire. So far it's working great! This latest version, 4.13.1, is using 118mb of memory. That doesn't seem too bad. It's certainly not slowing anything down. Well-built, smooth-running, great app!
(Version 4.13.1.5) | |
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| Jan 21 2007 |
SEPTIMUS ALTERNATIVE LimeWire client??? It's the best Gnutella client out there! I love it! Just my 2 cents....
(Version 4.13.1.5) | |
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| Jan 21 2007 |
TOBES This seems to be hit and miss with people but personally I think it ROCKS! Fast, solid, tops, well done developers!
(Version 4.13.1) | |
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| Dec 28 2006 |
SCOTTYARCH I'm rather disappointed with this app. I thought it would be a viable alternative to Limewire and it's really not. I have a MacBook Pro, 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and it was using up 112% of my CPU! It was taking more processor power than Photoshop and almost as much RAM! On top of that, it keeps detecting an non-existant firewall and dropping all downloads to 0 KBps. I don't know what the benefit of this app is to Limewire but as it is I just don't see one.
(Version 4.13.1) | |
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