Vuze BitTorrent Client - 3.1.1.0

I've got to start by saying I've never been a fan of Azureus. Bloated slow java code, confusing interface, difficult to use. Rtorrent on the command line and transmission as a gui are both light years ahead and much better in general. Every now and then though you get a tracker that won't talk to anything but one of the "popular" torrent clients, so you have to break out something like Azureus. It's gotten MUCH more painful than it used to be.

Now instead of a torrent client, it's a mess of multimedia. To put it in terms of web browsers, Vuze is to Transmission, as AOL on dialup is to Safari on broadband.

I suppose there might be a target audience out there for them. If you wanted to install one piece of bloated java code on your grandmother's computer, and if she had enough hardware to run it, and didn't have an epileptic seizure from all the distracting content everywhere, this might be some sort of all-in-one program where you can search for and download video all in one app. For anyone that can use a web browser themselves though (including absolutely everyone smart enough to find this review on Versiontracker) just stick to downloading torrents yourself and using a simple torrent client.

I can't say that I went crazy clicking on the overwhelming content it threw up on my screen but I did give the search a whirl. A torrent that I had originally downloaded from mininova couldn't be found in their search. Oh well, so it's a bad idea and it doesn't even work.

"Vuze" seems to work well enough. I have noted that it is slower to close down that the last incarnation of this software, so much so that I was almost considering performing a force quit on the application.

Perhaps this now needs another bug killing cycle rather than new tweaks to refine its performance.