Sure it's a LITTLE slower than a regular app, but Limewire's latest release fixed a lot of issues that previous versions had (like the redraw after 'unhiding' is fixed for the most part), doesn't crash at startup as much and is a little faster than the last rev...[digression:but this version won't hold preferences for sharing files]. until macphex (ALSO JAVA) puts a file type option in the search capabilities, i'm using limewire.