Instantbird a Mozilla based Instant Messenger

Instantbird plans to be for Instant Messengers what Firefox is for web browsers. The first version with the number 0.1 does show a lot of promise but naturally lacks the stability of a software that has been developed for years. It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to render IMs and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the various networks.

Eight Instant Messaging networks are currently mentioned on the Instantbird homepage, those are: AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, QQ, XMPP and Yahoo!. Several others are however available as well if you want to add a new network. It runs pretty solid for such an early version though and it will be interesting to see how this project evolves in the future.

The roadmap looks promising and is outlined at the developers website of Instandbird. Localization, smiley and sound themes are for instance scheduled for version 0.2 of the client. It will take some time but if the developers manage to put the same effort and dedication into this project than the other teams are putting into developing Firefox, Thunderbird and Songbird they will surely create a remarkable software.

Instantbird is Open Source and available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Apple Macintosh.

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Tags: google talk, icq, im, instant messanger, instantbird, msn
Categories: Tools, software

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5 Responses to “Instantbird a Mozilla based Instant Messenger”

1. archer says:

   October 21, 2007 at 5:43 am

   anyone able to fire this up?

   i couldn’t get it to.

   i’d have to call this “pre-alpha”

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2. Adam Dempsey says:

   October 21, 2007 at 4:47 pm

   great job so far for such an early version. looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

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