B1 Free Archiver - anyone used it?

[tapoo]

Just now, noticed a compression software named B1 Free Archiver?

anyone ever used it, it also has its own extension named b1 like 7z, rar,zip etc.

http://b1.org/

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Compression-tools/B1-Free-Archiver.shtml

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[gin]

never used it, but the GUI looks good
wanna try now

 

[viktik]

It is good and fast.

it can open & extract most common archive formats : b1, zip, rar, 7z, cab, gz, bz2, jar, tar, arj, deb, lhz, iso

But it can compress in only b1 and zip formats

it needs more option in settings
Need better context menu integration

 

[MalwareT]

Looks good, but i already "bought" WinRAR and HaoZip is on my VM

 

[tapoo]

Looks good, but i think feature-wise they need to improve to compete with Bandizip/Haozip.... i am only talking about Free compression competitors here...

 

[jackuars]

It has scored consistently poor in Raymond's latest archiver tests and came last/close to it.

15 Archivers Tested to Find the Fastest Speeds and Smallest File Sizes
15 Archivers Tested to Find the Fastest Speeds and Smallest File Sizes-Results Page

If you're going for a free archiver, try Bandizip, it's excellent. Haozip has stopped its development.

 

[Raul90]

Tried it for a moment but did not like it. I would find myself always going back to WinRAR and 7Zip. Had the chance to try it when I was downloading from 4shared.com. Seems they are promoting it there.