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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel
- Date added: January 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 583,957
- Downloads last week: 20,005
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- Average user rating: stars out of 39 votes
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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 4.17 improves Bittorrent and Magnet links support.
What's new in this version:
- New Launcher/Installer
- Fixes incompatibilities with new Macbooks
- Half sized installers
- It will attempt to add the default Library folder of 4.13.5 so users won't feel like they lost their old library
- FrostWire now can be auto-started when Windows starts. This setting is available from the 'Option' menu ('Windows boot') and from the initial setup.
- File Association issues fixed. FrostWire will open automatically on Windows and MacOSX upon click... see all new features
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User reviews of FrostWire 4.17.2
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 39 votes
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Version: FrostWire 4.17.2
"better than limewire the new imewire sucks"
Pros: easy to use
Cons: dislikes are none as it ia simple
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Version: FrostWire 4.17.2
"Better User Interface than LimeWire For Mac"
Pros: Able to have More Specific Searches Such as Artist, Album, and Song.
Supposedly written off Limewire Pro code.
When searching I get much more results in frostwire than in limewire.
Easy to locate incomplete files and delete them freeing disk space.Cons: Risk of Viruses if user doesn't know what they are doing or what to download, though Mac has thousands less viruses than Microsoft OS.
Summary: Again I tried Limewire for the Mac first and my experience wasn't a pleasant one, while searching for an artist I'd notice I could only get about 40-60 results max most of which were the same file over and over again, then I could only download 10 i... read more >>
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Version: FrostWire 4.17.2
Pros: i love everything about it. Had Limewire Pro but membership ran out, was annoyed to pay. Finally i ahve found Frostwire and its FREE! Just like Limewire PRO.
Cons: nothing, none that i found
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Version: FrostWire 4.17.2
Pros: Gives you access to tons o' music
Cons: Tends to pull up a lot of porn spam, and you need to be careful about what you download.
Summary: A good solid product w/no serious flaws. The latest version of Limewire is written specifically for Intel macs, but Frostwire works fine on my G4.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: FrostWire 4.17.2
Pros: As a LimeWire Clone it leaves LimeWire 5 for dead.
Cons: Nothing so far.
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