Comments on: Instantbird – Where Mozilla Meets Pidgin

By: Instantbird 0.1 is Like Firefox for Chat at SoftSaurus

Instantbird 0.1 is Like Firefox for Chat at SoftSaurus — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:29:15 +0000

[...] Aside from the basics you’d expect from any chat app (like status notifications, contact management, and IM notifications), the ultimate roadmap for Instantbird includes video and voice support. What’s most exciting, though, is the possibility that the chat application will be subject to the same community of creative extension developers that make Firefox such a killer browser—so that Instantbird can easily be customized to deliver exactly what you want from it. Instantbird is free, works with Windows, Mac, and Linux. It’s still a very young app, so this one’s for the early adopters. Instantbird [via CyberNet] [...]

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:07:35 +0000

Although Instantbird is based on something Mozilla developed, it’s is not a Mozilla project as far as I know.

Ah, ok thanks.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:14:01 +0000

Although Instantbird is based on something Mozilla developed, it’s is not a Mozilla project as far as I know.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:59:48 +0000

Looks interesting. Have Mozilla got a nightly/release site for it like their other applications?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:52:45 +0000

Nice job, Pieter! Think I’ll be sticking with Pidgin for right now though.

By: CARPENTER’S - LORD OF THE TECHS » Blog Archive » Instantbird

CARPENTER’S - LORD OF THE TECHS » Blog Archive » Instantbird — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:44:30 +0000

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By: Pieter

Pieter — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:37:02 +0000

Just threw together an installer package (.DEB format) for all you Ubuntu users out there (so probably just me, but I had too much time on my hands ). This is the first Ubuntu installer I ever built, so keep in mind that stuff *could* go wrong. It probably won’t go as far as damaging your system though; in the worst case you’ll end up with a broken uninstaller or something. I don’t know. I mean, I tested it several times on Ubuntu 7.10 and it didn’t break anything…

Without further ado, here’s a download link:
[divshare.com]

Just download the file to your desktop, double-click it and then hit the ‘Install package’ button. Instantbird should appear in your GNOME/KDE start menu after installation. If it does not, you can always launch it by opening a terminal and executing the ‘instantbird’ command.

If you experience any issues with this package, please let me know.

By: dtanderson

dtanderson — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:32:18 +0000

Very nice, I will have to keep an eye on this one.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:55:41 +0000

I remember the last time I tried Miranda it required me to jump through some hoops to get Google Talk setup. I think I had to download an SSL program and everything.

By: irian

irian — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:01:00 +0000

I am also a big fan of Miranda, very customizable and ran like a charm on my super old laptop. The big drawback is that it requires lot of tinkering to get it to work as I want it to (true, I am picky, and after configuring it as I like, it does precisely what I want to). The Instantbird project does sound quite interesting, with endless possibilities from easy to install extensions.