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Instantbird

Example conversation in Instantbird
Developer(s)	Florian Quèze and Quentin Castier
Stable release	0.1.3.1 / March 26, 2009
Preview release	0.2 alpha 1 / July 23, 2009
Operating system	Cross-platform
Available in	English
Type	Instant messaging client
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.instantbird.com

Instantbird is an instant messenger based on Mozilla's XULRunner and the open source library libpurple created by the software developers of Pidgin. Instantbird is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Its features are limited compared to Pidgin, but the feature roadmap aims to match Pidgin's feature set in release 1.0.

[edit] Supported protocols

• OSCAR (AIM/ICQ/.Mac)
• Gadu-Gadu
• Novell GroupWise
• Internet Relay Chat
• Microsoft Notification Protocol (.NET Messenger Service, commonly known as MSN)
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• IBM Lotus Sametime
• XMPP (Google Talk, ...)
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr
• Netsoul

[edit] Analogs

• QuteCom
• Sameplace
• Meebo
• ChatZilla for IRC
• Jabberzilla for XMPP (project is dead)
• Mango for XMPP (project is dead)

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