Instantbird: IM client based on Mozilla
Florian Quèze and Quentin Castier Mozilla released an Instant Messenger client called Instantbird. It is based on mozilla rendering engine and libpurple code library what pidgin uses for connecting to different networks.
Instant bird is still in early beta, the version 0.1 can be downloaded from the site for testing. You don’t have to install the client to use it. According to the instant bird homepage you can connect to AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, QQ and XMPP (GTalk). This is an early version and don’t expect any fancy things. It works well when you connect to an IM service. Before it can be adapted widely it has long way to go.
It comes for Linux, Windows and Mac, but Downloadsquad points out that compiling it from source in Ubuntu is pain and took around 2 hours. Like other mozilla products it can be extended with plugins.
[Via Download Squad]
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October 20th, 2007 8:35 pm
October 21st, 2007 4:01 am
You are right thanks for the correction, i have updated the post
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October 22nd, 2007 10:23 am
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October 22nd, 2007 10:46 am
October 23rd, 2007 3:25 pm
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