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Pidgin crashes soon after start - always

Submitted by spasti on April 23, 2009 - 11:52am

EDIT: Reboot and fast "killing" of Facebook IM does the trick sometimes... Can you overload Pidgin Portable? Would you recommend the full pidgin with a lot of Plugins? Can you combine pidgin portable and the regular one? e.g. autocopy your logfiles to the portable version but using the regular while being at home?!
And also: How to make p - portable more stable?

2nd EDIT: IT's not only facebook that kills it. I disabled the facebook account but crashes still occur.

3rd EDIT: IT IS THE MSN ACCOUNT!

4th: Deleting and re-adding all the accounts did the trick.

Pidgin: Crashing a lot?

Submitted by hm2k on April 21, 2009 - 2:39pm

Anyone else finding that pidgin portable crashes more and more with each update?

I don't think I can go through a 24 hour period without pidgin crashing...

Is anyone interested in resolving this?

What are the steps to take to get this resolved?

If nobody is interested or there are no steps, it's likely that I'm going to exchange pidgin for something else, such as miranda, and that would be a shame.

I hear good things about Empathy, shame it's linux only.

Can't install fonts on USB stick for use with Pidgin

Submitted by jaybz.e on April 21, 2009 - 8:19am

I went to Pidgin's settings directory and created a .fonts directory to put the fonts in, but the font didn't appear in Tools->Preferences->Conversations->Conversation Font.

I've also tried moving GTK to \PortableApps\CommonFiles\GTK and I edited GTK\etc\fonts\fonts.conf to add this line:

<dir>/PortableApps/CommonFiles/GTK/share/fonts</dir>

Miranda: Multiple instances

Submitted by Rygir on April 17, 2009 - 5:28pm

Apparantly, I can't run multiple instances of Miranda Portable.

This is strange, because I googled it, and I found someone had posted a "bug" on miranda dev and it was marked as solved because according to the developers, there isn't any check so that should work.

So I'm guessing the problem is with the MIM portable launcher...?

Also, what does MIM actually do that's not portable, warranting the use of a launcher?

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