Instant Bird – ‘Firefox meets Pidgin’ Hybrid chat Client

“Why do you get when you cross Firefox and Pidgin?
InstantBird.

“No, That wasn’t a joke without a punchline but an introduction
to one of the more interesting applications I’ve tried in a while a
while: A messaging client that is a curious hybrid of both Firefox
& Pidgin.

“InstantBird makes use of the popular libpurple library (as used
in Pidgin and Mac client Adium) for connecting to IM services and
draws on the Mozilla rendering engine to display messages. By using
the well-known bibpurple library the app is able to connect to
almost every major chat service, including: –

* AIM
* MSN
* Yahoo! Messenger”

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