If I could come up with something to help, I would. In other words, the primary responsibility for making it work better is the Frostwire developers. The portable version of Frostwire is neither more nor less susceptible to being blocked by a firewall than the non-Portable version. In most such cases, it will be able to make outbound connections, but won't be able to accept inbound ones. I can frequently make ssh work with a tunnel, or set up a PPTP VPN, but that's with a server I rent, or my home computer, and I don't think I'd want to open it up to several million of my closest friends.įrostwire should work to a certain extent if the firewall is restrictive.
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The other thing about proxies is that it requires some control over an Internet-connected machine with some inbound ports not restricted by a firewall and/or properly set up if behind a NAT router. But it's also the case that it sometimes takes a few tries to find one that works for one firewall, without confidence that it will work for another. Since it is a firewall's job to block things like that, the folks who run firewalls prefer that firewalls not be too easy to bypass. That's the sort of detective work that's needed. directory at the beginning of the PATH, so it would find it right away.
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But of course, that discovery suggested appending the. The fact that the file was right there in the same folder as the executable made that exercise seem bizarre. I saw a program going through a list of different folders that way, and it only took a few moments to realize it was looking at each folder on the PATH in turn. Sometimes ProcessMonitor from Sysinternals can give you a clue. So try different things and see what you come up with. It is also possible it is looking at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell FoldersĪnd ignores the environment variable completely - which would make things harder, but not impossible. The USERPROFILE would be a more likely place to look than ALLUSERSPROFILE, but it's possible. Unless you poke around inside the source code, the only way to tell for sure where it is looking to find APPDATA is experiment. (LIMEWIRE_PREFS_DIR vs FROSTWIRE_PREFS_DIR) The launcher now sets up both (the program only notices the one it is looking for) in case a future version reverts to using the Frostwire name for the variable. In this version the developers included a bunch of upgraded stuff from the Limewire repository, and neglected to rename all the Limewire variables to Frostwire.I left the "country flag" icon showing up on the status line, not because I'm super-patriotic or something, but so non-English speakers might have an easier time figuring out how to switch languages (click on the flag to get the language picker).
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Use of the Java Portablizer is recommended. And, as with all apps, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on.ĭownload: FrostWire Portable 4.17.2 Development Test 1 (MD5: 9884e00bfafbc66b27ddf48ac8c5126a) Past downloads: 434 License: GPL Frostwire is written in Java and includes gnutella, bittorrent, and similar capabilities. Description: FrostWire Portable is the Frostwire peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing application packaged as a Portable App, so you can take your filesharing with you.