Experience the Next Generation of the Fastest P2P Program
Built pretty much like LimeWire, on the same Gnutella platform, FrostWire has many of its features and functionalities and, fortunately, not as many ads. But, we must admit, Frostwire now comes with a beautiful and sharpened interface with smooth tabs and corners.
FrostWire keeps you informed of the bandwidth, incoming and outgoing connections, and it offers you a chat.
Reviewed by I. Petre
Publisher's Description:
From FrostWire
FrostWire, a Gnutella Peer-to-Peer client, is a collaborative effort from many Open Source and freelance developers located from all around the world. 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.
Main Updates: * 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 * 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
RoSoftDownload.com team has tested FrostWire against viruses, spyware, adware, trojan, backdoors and was found to be 100% clean of any form of malware.. Our editors will test this application periodically to assure that it remains clean.
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