Pidgin speaks to MSN users
Despite the uncomplicated version number, open-source, multiclient chat app Pidgin 2.5 doesn't include any major improvements unless you're fascinated by bug-fixes or are a big MSN-messenger user.
Available for Windows, in a portable version, and for Linux, the update features support for Microsoft's Live Messenger offline messaging, and personal messages. The latter will show up as Status messages. Live Messenger's non-face Smileys should be updated, too.
Other improvements are much smaller in scale: Group and Chat buddy list entries now support custom buddy icons via the context menu, and there's the usual spate of stability improvements across the board. I had noticed some stability issues with Yahoo IM in the previous release, version 2.4.3, and so hopefully those have been resolved, too.
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- by srosenblatt August 21, 2008 1:37 PM PDT
- @Gdn_TD: You need to activate the version update feature via the plug-ins menu.
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(3 Comments)@JoyceNgo: I haven't experienced the problem you're describing. Any luck on the Pidgin forums, or anybody else have a suggestion? You might want to try disabling all the plug-ins you've activated.