trillian is too bloated, next best thing?

[gorcorps]

I love trillian for what it is, but lately it's become slow and annoying to have open. What's another all-in-one chat program that has a small footprint but does basically the same thing? I've found a couple but they didn't have IRC which is a must. I'd like aim+yahoo+irc... and maybe msn but that's not a priority.

Thanks in advance

 

[ni0v]

pidgin has irc.

 

[George P Burdell]

Pidgin

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah I recently switched from trillian to pidgin. Trillian was ok but it had some issues that were getting on my nerves like randomly saying invalid password and booting me off.


I still find it funny that 3rd partys can do a better job then microsoft at making a IM client. MS must of made char tmp = new * char[100000000] a new programming standard for their office.

 

[gorcorps]

Thanks guys, pidgin is up and running and looks good.

 

[ockky]

miranda, it has whatever you need ... no more, no less

 

[jaqie]

Odd... I use trillian with the microscopic pro skin and disable the wikitrash function, and it never uses more then 9MB ram, I definitely would not call that bloated, and it's anything but slow even when it was on my old p3m 1ghz 256mb ram laptop with a trident video card.

But yes, pidgin and miranda are some alternatives. I have even run miranda on my toshiba libretto 70CT (win98, P120mmx, 32MB ram)

 

[gorcorps]

Well pidgin is now crashing every time it starts for some reason. Guess I'll be looking for something else.

 

[Quiksilver]

Pidgin works fine for me, it has since I first started using it about 4 years ago. Dunno why it would be crashing.
I'd give miranda a try.

 

[jaqie]

I'd be more inclined to try to discover why a reliable program crashes and another "feels bloated" on your system.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

was going to say pidgin

 

[crisscross]

digsby? dunno if it does IRC though

 

[Slick5150]

Another vote for Miranda. Its incredibly small but does everything I need.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Telnet. come on, msn protocol is not that complicated.

j/k though it would be a geeky way to go about things. haha

 

[sourceninja]

I use pidgin with 0 issues on XP, vista, and ubuntu.