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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: December 19, 2007
- Total Downloads: 21,895,850
- Downloads last week: 348,496
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1327 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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.
Publisher's description
From FrostWire :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. Version 4.13.4 improves connection bootstrapping.
Note: This software comes with ASK toolbar, that can be installed or uninstalled at the user's choice.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.13.4 improves connection bootstrapping.
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User reviews of FrostWire 4.13.4
- Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 1327 votes
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FrostWire 4.13.4
"Frostwire, same as Limewire?"
Pros: The best thing it's faster started up then Limewire. Since Limewire offers you to buy LimeWire pro wich isnt bothering here in FrostWire.
Frostwire offers what LimeWire does not (atleast, the not pro version).
It gives you super fast downloads, and more features than Limewire.
Cons: Frostwire isn't the best community out there, so you won't be able to find all songs you like. Atleast not many sources, but it's not that common.
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9 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Version: FrostWire 4.13.4
"Limewire I hated. This is much better!!! AND FREE TURBOCHARGED DOWNLOADS"
Pros: I downloaded Limewire, and for some odd reason I didn't like it. Everybody liked it but I hated it, but FrostWire is excellent and I love the software!!
It has a feel of Limewire, only its a nice blue colour and its faster than Limewire.
The tabs are the same at the top but smaller and therefore looks nicer and expands the window. It also has an extra option so you can chat to many people using frostwire at the same time.
It includes more search results which is fantastic, includes bit-torrent and limewire results and therefore you only need one software to download files!
Also includes i-tunes too!
It includes also the turbo-charged connection that you can only get in the paid version of limewire.
I love the software and its much better than limewire!
Cons: Sometimes it doesn't search for mp3's, but if you type in the song or artist's name in the search "All types" then it works!
Apart from that I haven't seen any cons yet!
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: FrostWire 4.13.4
Cons: i installed this on 2 differant computers. one with vista, one with xp. it wouldn't connect.
i turned off all the security, the firewall and added it to the allow list. after 4 hours it still was trying to connect. at least it uninstalled easy.
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Version: FrostWire 4.13.4
"BRILLIANT..Turbo charged connections all the time all for free"
Pros: Limewire Pro for free
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Version: FrostWire 4.13.4
"Much faster downloads but look out for viruses"
Pros: Just like limewire, faster downloading
Cons: I had two trojans after downloading files
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