FrostWire on Mashable and #4 most popular download of the year on Download.com

Cheers to the Mashable.com team for writing this note about us.

Also FrostWire makes it as the #4 of the Top Downloads of the year at CNET, LimeWire made it as #1

FrostWire startup error fix – (frostwire_theme.skin null pointer error fix)

Update: A new FrostWire 4.13.4 installer for windows is now available to help fix this problem, you can just download it again and the problem will be gone. If you don’t want to download it again follow these instructions for a simple fix.

If your new frostwire is crashing, due to :

"Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException:
resource: frostwire_theme.skin doesn't exist." 

Just Download and save this file:
http://www.frostwire.com/beta/skins/frostwire_theme.skin

For Windows XP, save it at:

C:\\Documents and Settings\\<name>\\Application Data\\FrostWire\\Themes\\

For Windows Vista, save it at:

C:\\Users\\<name>\\AppData\\Roaming\\FrostWire\\themes\\

(where “<name>” is your user name in windows)

This should solve the problem.

This problem affects only users who never had FrostWire installed on their machine, or users that may have removed their FrostWire Preferences folder.

Thanks to CodeMoose for posting this fix.

Sneak peak at 4.13.4 (Mac/Linux)

Curious Mac and Linux users get to take 4.13.4 for a spin before everyone else.
Might be uploading the Linux installers during the next hours.

Mac OSX DMG (No more zips for Mac users)
MD5 -> 6690b1d08109059a508961fb057c9176

Ubuntu/Debian package
MD5 -> 276c319df17869a18f3e11fb3ecddc55

TGZ
MD5 -> e8bfaa395bcd8ab188166cc142c4dd83

RPM
MD5 -> fdd7ef316e05fb1c63f0914b5259dc76

Take it for a ride. Windows version coming soon, We expect to have it ready for tomorrow

CHANGELOG – Mowi po polsku ?

version 4.13.4 (November-December 2007)

Connection Bootstrapping problems should be gone. TurboCharged connection is achieved on average under 5 seconds after launch.

“Buy” button on the search result panel.

Polish Translation Included. Finally got around Encoding issues of the Java ResourceBundle class. More translations with their correct characters coming in the future. (thanks Paulinka for the translation)

New FrostWire Icon on the Icon Tray for Windows XP (thanks to sw1tch)

The Bugmanager window still said “LimeWire” (it was very well hidden in the code). Thanks to Marcelina Knitter for reporting.

Fixes on Update Notification Mechanism.

Fixes on Chat Banner Loading Mechanism, banner reloading interval from server is now configurable. Banners can now be delivered per FrostWire version. Faster startup and savings on bandwidth.

Cleaning of IRC Stack traces.