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And there are people around who think Internet Explorer is the perfect browser... Sooner or later there will be a whole group of people saying how good the new 2.2 UI is... Proving their points with: Think about it. 100x better than the old one

Yes, except if the biggest thing in a new release is to brings apps, and are advertised in a way that everyone is just one click from ruining the whole uTorrent experience. At least in Firefox you really need to dig in deep to find how to install extensions and how to find one which is giving you 385 MB of memory usage! Most of my casual PC user friends doesn't even know about extensions in Firefox! And if Firefox ever has an extension to use 300 MB of ram, they are surely disabling that in the next release. On the other hand, if you are a casual user starting uTorrent 2.2 you are 90% ending up with a uTorrent setup with at least 1 or 2 applications enabled (with map being one of them, i would guess). They stay loaded even in the system tray! Why should a map application use resources while being in the system tray? Oh and the only other change is the new UI, which goes against everything happening in the user interface design these days. Look at the examples of Google Chrome vs. IE 6,7, or iOS and Android vs. Windows Mobile or Symbian. I congratulate the uTorrent UI design team that they found the light in this chaos and engineered a UI which follows the tracks of IE 6 / Symbian / Windows Mobile, in 2010! Why do all good projects end up like this? Nero was small, fast, nice and sweet and it ended up being over 1 GB. Skype didn't use more screen space then a small bar on on the right side of any application, it ended up being a full screen monster. ACDSee got really popular because of it's small footprint and quick loading times, these days it takes half a minute to start it. Are you sure that uTorrent needs to end up like this?

I had about 5 torrents total and a very slow connection. I tried the maps app and TED. Guys, a program world famous for it's small footprint should not be allowed to use 385 MB ram because you click on a button like "map"... In a stable version! Someone has lost their common sense at the dev team?

What an awful, horrible, bloatware OmegaTorrent this version is! I have been using utorrent from the earliest earliest beta days, and I was always laughing at all my friends having pain with Java based slow clients using CPU and memory. Up till now, my lovely uTorrent has never ever used more than 8 MB of ram. This new version: 385 MB on the first try!!! Of course it's not only memory, but constant CPU hogging too! And a disgusting, terrible, sense-less user interface without logic, and good bye to one of the best icon designs on windows. What has happened and why? Now it's time to look for a new client! But I don't know any which would be as lightweight as uTorrent was. I mean once...