Whats A Good Universal Instand Message Client?

[kooftspc11]

preferably not one that runs 800 processes on launch

[svr]

I have been using Trillian for many many years now and it's great even with its problems. Miranda IM is good too but I prefer Trillian.

[jazzpipe]

Pidgin (was called GAIM before).

Pidgin is faster than Trillian, try loading up 600 people on Pidgin versus Trillian and you will see a difference.

[ghost716]

pidgin
i absolutely love pidgin
so clean and crisp and lightwieght
its incredible

[Cabalo]

I have been using Trillian for many many years now and it's great even with its problems. Miranda IM is good too but I prefer Trillian.

i've been using trillian too. Can't say about pidgin, but gonna give it a try too.

[Definite]

I use Pidgin, it's fast and minimalistic.

[svr]

My Trillian started acting up weird and crashed, so I decided to try Pidgin. And it's pretty awesome. Lightweight, lots of plugins, easy to configure. In other words I'm not going back to trillian, atleast for now.

Trillian has a bad bug that has been known for 2-4 years now and its still not fixed. I'm talking about the MSN disconnect/reconnect bug. If you lose your internet connection while connected to MSN and when your connection comes back online, trillian wont reconnect MSN automatically. You need to manually execute disconnect and then reconnect and it works. What a joke. Thought you should know

[x34]

http://www.miranda-im.org/

Best there is imo...

Its all iv ever used.

It can connect to:
IRC
MSN
YAHOO
JABBER
AIM
ICQ

Heh i think thats it, and its really lightwaight.

Give it a try.

Freeware too so u cant go wrong.

[bigdaddykane]

icq and transfering files with it is awesome .

[Optical]

I use trillian and seems to work fine.