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Instantbird 0.1.1 released!

We are glad to announce the release of Instantbird 0.1.1.

This release is mostly a bug fix release. We've been impressed by the success of the 0.1 release and thought it would be nice to deliver a more stable version for the users we already have before making big changes for version 0.2.

The things we focused on for this release are:

We look forward to get your feedback on this release. You can comment in this blog or join us on IRC.

We would like to thank the early testers and users of the 0.1 release who provided some great feedback and helped us make Instantbird better!

Written the 2008-03-03 at 00:24:34 by Florian in Announce.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from serrebi sent 2008-03-10 à 21:32:01.

nice. I hope instantbird takes off. I'm very interested in this project, as I'm blind and it's the closest thing to accessible multinetwrok we've got that will hopefully have good builtin or easily found functionality.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Jim Fulner sent 2008-03-12 à 19:33:18.

So I've used IM a lot, and I'm already quite impressed on the ease of use from Instantbird. Not that I'd expect anything else that starts with the word Mozilla. I've never really used IRC, what's the best way for me to go about setting that up.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from ariel sent 2008-03-12 à 22:37:09.

Can't wait to see a final release! Please hurry! :) I'm downloading v0.1.1 now because Pidgin is not working so well.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from dusoft sent 2008-03-19 à 10:02:17.

hi, very good initiative. thanks for that. i'll be watching the project and looking forward to seeing first fully-featured (e.g. context options) functional version.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Martin S. sent 2008-03-23 à 01:38:43.

Instantbird seems nice, but i REALLY would like to have a (optional) all-in-one-window-solution for instant messaging, Climm (from climm.org) is a nice example for this.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Marcelo sent 2008-03-23 à 15:43:20.

Great begin, really hope that this project can go further Miranda IM...waiting for the next release!

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from (anonymous) sent 2008-03-27 à 04:33:56.

Good to see an IM client that will have continual upgrades made to it. I have been using Trillian for years and enjoy it pretty well but there are no changes being made to it that can be utilized by a free user. Hope this will become my only IM client. Keep up the good work.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from lizmoney sent 2008-04-25 à 23:29:26.

nice and clean, interface. is there a way to set things like fonts and colors?

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Vicki sent 2008-04-27 à 05:06:47.

I really, really like this Pidgin-type tool for Mac because I don't like Adium at all. Keep up the good work! I think you should add a bigger away message bar, fonts/smiley face options, and sound options.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from sLLIK sent 2008-05-05 à 19:04:45.

For a 0.1.1 release, I'm EXTREMELY impressed. It doesn't yet have Away configurations, full XMPP interoperability (like service discovery and the ability to set the client's priority), or a full-featured and dynamic buddy list that I can tell yet, but it's already well on its way to becoming a premier Pidgin alternative. In fact, I'm already using it for that purpose. I can live without the expand/collapse group functionality in the buddy list for now, and I was already relying on launching Psi (ugliest IM client ever) for my service discovery configurations (like transports and chatroom listings), so no great loss for supporting an IM solution that holds lots of promise. It already inherits the GTK theme flawlessly (even when I'm using the Neutronium theme, which turns everything very dark), and already defaults to a tabbed single window. Kudos. =)

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from (anonymous) sent 2008-05-13 à 11:30:47.

As a recent "switcher" to the Mac, I was surprised and a little disappointed to find that the premier IM app for OS X (Adium) was a beautiful-looking app, and yet was missing one feature that I had assumed to be basically "standard" for all such programs, based on my experience with GAIM/Pidgin: "Buddy Pounce". Since Instabird is based on Pidgin, can we assume that feature is included? If not, where does such a feature lie on the development roadmap? Thanks, good luck..

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Florian sent 2008-05-13 à 12:51:43.

The roadmap is public, buddy pounces are listed on it.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Ron K. sent 2008-05-19 à 02:37:26.

As discussed on IRC, support for the basic IRC commands is needed to do joins, etc. from the chat window rather than going back to the connections interface. I also have the Same Place Jabber extension installed into Firefox that handle Jabber Chat, but I need IRC for Mozilla and other single server IRC connections. What I am highly impressed by is Your an XULRunner application. The Thunderbird team is working to migrate to XULRunner. It would be fantastic if Instantbird evolved to work easily with Tbird.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Marcus J sent 2008-05-27 à 11:32:43.

So where's the IRC channel? Thanks for your work so far! I really like what I see.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Marcus J sent 2008-05-27 à 11:34:23.

Haha... Neglect my recent post. Saw the info in the blog post! x)

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Sacha H. sent 2008-05-29 à 09:08:37.

I've also used Trillian for years but recently began looking for something with XMPP (mainly for GoogleTalk) since I've been getting fed up with how capricious ICQ can be. I'd tried Gaim in the past but I had problems with it. I decided to give Pidgin a shot, anyway. Unfortunately it crashed every time I tried to get at the Preferences. Hopefully as Instantbird develops there'll be a simple(r) version available for those of us who really only want to keep track of our various IM accounts through one client.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Chris sent 2008-06-07 à 17:28:57.

Instantbird rocks! (Because it unites all famous messengers in one application an it's so easy to use!) I can't wait until the next version is released!

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from (anonymous) sent 2008-06-09 à 16:54:34.

Does anybody know when 0.2 will come?

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Florian sent 2008-06-09 à 18:53:48.

No. We are still discussing whether we want to ship a 0.1.2 release with what we currently have as soon as possible or start working on bigger changes.

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Tare sent 2008-06-13 à 09:01:17.

Well, if the 0.2 release doesn't take too much time I would wait for it, but if it takes more than a month I would prefer a 0.1.2 release before. Keep up the good work :)

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Caio Viel sent 2008-06-15 à 03:28:34.

Very good, a Mozilla fan and descovery this program recentely, he is very simple yet, but probabily will be the best IM, like Firefox is the best brower and Thunderbird is the best e-mail tool. Please, finish this program early as you can!

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Salz sent 2008-07-01 à 16:54:01.

Update?!? Can't wait for updates :-/

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Julien Ramakichenin sent 2008-07-01 à 17:56:57.

Updates are coming soon!

Re: Instantbird 0.1.1 released! : comment from Donfuy sent 2008-07-27 à 16:30:31.

Has this stopped?

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