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Instantbird Portable

r.brem (Homepage) - July 28, 2009 - 6:27am

Program: Instantbird

License: Open Source/GPL

Description: Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client. Using it, you can connect to all your different IM accounts.
It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks.
Instantbird is a free and open source software. So you are free to use, distribute and modify it.

Website: http://instantbird.com/

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Advantages?

Augi - July 28, 2009 - 3:11pm

It looks just like Pidgin. What are the advantages of using Instantbird, instead of Pidgin Portable or going to Meebo.com with Firefox Portable?

Limits are for people with no imagination.

Basically

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Gizmokid2005
Developer
(Homepage) - July 28, 2009 - 4:22pm

Instantbird is more like Adium, than Pidgin. In the respect that Adium and Instantbird both use the libpurple code, as well as Pidgin, but both Adium and Instantbird actually use a webkit engine to display the text/messages, whereas Pidgin requires GTK+

actually Instant bird doesn't

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Zach Thibeau
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(Homepage) - July 28, 2009 - 7:39pm

actually Instant bird doesn't use a webkit engine
this is from their site

It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks

your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau

Right

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Gizmokid2005
Developer
(Homepage) - July 28, 2009 - 7:54pm

I didn't mean it uses actual WebKit...I meant it uses a web browser engine instead of GTK+.

Possible tests are in order

Augi - July 28, 2009 - 10:16pm

Actually, I think I will run some tests to see if there are performance benefits. Currently I am experiencing issues with Pidgin Portable running on an AMD 64-bit Vista machine (it crashes every 30 minutes without fail).

I will check start up times, RAM usage, plugin availability, functionality, etc. Considering that Instantbird is new, I must be generous on the latter of tests.

Limits are for people with no imagination.

Plugins

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John T. Haller
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(Homepage) - July 28, 2009 - 10:20pm

This is usually due to a misbehaving plugin. The Facebook plugin for Pidgin, for example, consistently crashed Pidgin on my box.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Off Topic: Really?

Augi - July 29, 2009 - 2:05pm

What kind of machine are you running? I use the Facebookchat plugin but Pidgin never crashed on my XP laptop. This has only yet consistently occurred while working on my neighbor's Vista AMD 64-bit machine.

Limits are for people with no imagination.

I run pidgin for days at a

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Gizmokid2005
Developer
(Homepage) - July 29, 2009 - 2:24pm

I run pidgin for days at a time with no problems. Typically any issues you see are caused by some type of plugin...WebPidgin used to crash my pidgin all the time...

following up

ricardofilipemoreira - December 13, 2009 - 2:25pm

http://portableapps.com/node/14781

just trying to merge the threads because they're about the same thing and my next reply fits better there

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