FrostWire 4.17.0
FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire PRO Gnutella/Bittorrent client. The purpose of FrostWire is to keep and maintain the freedoms that LimeWire LLC may be forced to withdraw. Share any type of file on Gnutella and the Bittorrent network.
Download.com editor's review of FrostWire
FrostWire is a fork of the LimeWire source code, and as such, it functions exactly the same. When you search for a file using FrostWire, you get results from LimeWire, and vice versa.
However, the user experience differs in two ways. One is that the code is actually based on LimeWire Pro, the paid version of the popular P2P client, so users don't have to worry about simultaneous download restrictions, and they won't get bombarded by ads. Also, befitting the name, the interface has changed from green to blue and has been slightly improved. Tabs have rounded corners, and there are two additions, as well. Connections monitors your outgoing and incoming connections by host name, but also provides bandwidth information, the vendor and version being used, and more. There's also a built-in community chat.
When we tested it, the built-in media player in FrostWire didn't work with MP3s or MPGs, although those files worked fine in LimeWire and elsewhere. The app also comes bundled with the ASK toolbar, but you can opt out of that during the installation process. While some people have experienced faster download times with FrostWire compared with its parent, others have not. FrostWire and LimeWire are practically indistinguishable, although the lack of ads is a big plus.
FrostWire Main Feature:
- Completely Free & Open Source
- BitTorrent Support
- Turbo-Charged Download Speeds
- Absolutely NO Spyware or Adware
- Connects to more sources
- Creative Commons license support
- Max. speed network connections
- Junk Result Filters
- Community Chat Rooms
- iTunes Integration
- Firewall-to-firewall transfers
- Proxy Support
FrostWire Version:
FrostWire 4.17.0
FrostWire New Version Change Log:
- * 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
