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Pidgin: OTR 3.2.0 New Version

Submitted by Undintel on June 16, 2008 - 4:53am

It's come out the new version of "OTR" for Pidgin as per link :

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

With high new security function :

pidgin-otr-3.2.0 and libotr-3.2.0 released. Changes from 3.1.0:

* The functionality of the OTR button has now moved to a menu. There's an "OTR" menu, as well as an icon showing the current OTR state of each active conversation in the window.
* New OTR icons from
* OTR icons show up inline in the conversation window when the OTR status changes.

Pidgin: Not Connecting

Submitted by The Master Gee®© on June 11, 2008 - 6:02pm

Hi Everyone,

Great app bar one small issue it will not connect to windows messanger on my own pc
works on everyone elses pc as soon as i plug the usb drive in to my pc it says
"Our protocol is not supported by the server"
when trying to connect is very strange tried all the virus software firewall ideas as normal
could i have some sort of net frame work or something missing on my pc ???

any ideas would be great

The Master Gee

Pidgin > Miranda

Submitted by statement on June 6, 2008 - 1:37pm

I used to be a fan to miranda, ironic as it may i'm hardly on any chats as it is, i was just testing out miranda and it has tons of configurable options, and seems to be more advanced but it's downfall is that it's difficult and it's rather awkward to use. i remember playing with gaim (before pidgin) and found it way too simple for my tastes, and bulky. i've just tried out the latest version of pidgin and on first load it ask for a username/protocal i chose irc, right off the bat i was connected, and checking out irc channels, again, great test run.

Pidgin and Googletalk

Submitted by tsneller on May 22, 2008 - 6:58am

Pidgin is unable to connect to Googletalk or Yahoo on my company PC from behind the firewall, but Googletalk itself works fine.

However Pidgin connects to MSN without any problem.

Debug log is below:-
(11:55:16) proxy: Connected to talk.google.com:5222.
(11:55:16) proxy: Error connecting to talk.google.com:5222 (Connection timed out.).
(11:55:16) proxy: Connection attempt failed: Connection timed out.
(11:55:16) account: Disconnecting account 00C8E668
(11:55:16) connection: Disconnecting connection 026CED50
(11:55:16) jabber: jabber_actions: have pep: NO

pidgin portable 2.42 with otr and spell check

Submitted by innomen on May 21, 2008 - 12:33pm

I want pidgin portable 2.42 with OTR and spell check as a single install. PM me if you have it since clearly there's never going to be one to download. I'd also like the installer to double as an updater, since its a real chore as is.

I never can make it work, either it forgets accounts, or the spellchecker only works on my home machine, or the OTR just vanishes, or all of the above.

Pidgin: Memory Usage

Submitted by Cassandra on May 21, 2008 - 8:24am

I've been using Pidgin for quite some time now. I've stopped using it yesterday. I noticed Pidgin eats too much memory. Especially when I am talking to someone, when conversations window is opened. It eats even more then Firefox. More then 100,000 K.

On the other hand, Miranda has really small memory usage.

This is big dissadvantage for Pidgin and I surely won't use it anymore (or untill memory usage problem is normalized).

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