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3 stars
Version: Pidgin 2.4.3
"Not happy with the new Pidgin."
Pros: The only great thing about it is it's better than AIM 6.x and has many functions. I could go on Google Talk and AIM, Yahoo, etc. It's not a memory hog either.
Cons: There's nothing good I could say about this program anymore. It gets bigger everyday with the most NOT obvious updates and then out of nowhere it updated and changed almost the whole interface. Unless you use Linux, the spell check doesn't work even if you have it available (happened to me), when doing directIM, you can never see the file sizes you are sending or receiving. They changed the IM windows, and as you type, it causes the text field to bounce up and down because it's supposed to "adjust to your text" and gets bigger as you type more in it.
The "*USERNAME HERE* is typing..." text in the IM window is extremely buggy for me and it comes and goes as it wants whether the person is typing or not. What ever happened to that cool keyboard icon on the top right that shows when users are typing?!
They make the most unnecessary changes, yet every new thing they add, they cause more bugs and then they more bugs must be fixed; which is the reason why this program updates way too often. How unfortunate :(
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