Instantbird 1.3 Released! | Blog@instantbird.org

We’ve released Instantbird 1.3 (get your copy here)! This update includes some nice improvements, which are fully outlined in the release notes. A few changes of note are:

IRC: Long messages will now be sent in multiple parts, and more authentication methods are supported to connect e.g. to Freenode.
Twitter: Replying to a tweet now replies to all users, just like on the Twitter website!
User’s nicknames are now highlighted when mentioned in a chat.
Two new social networks were added: Odnoklassniki and VKontakte.
Various connection issues with Twitter and XMPP based networks were fixed.
Accessibility improvements.

Unfortunately, this will be the last release to support Mac OS 10.5 and PPC, as we will be unable to support these once we upgrade Instantbird to Mozilla 17.

We’ve got plenty of interesting new features and ideas for upcoming versions of Instantbird! We will update to a more recent version of Mozilla with awesome new features, imagine all the cool things we can do with technologies like WebRTC!

15 thoughts on “Instantbird 1.3 Released!”

Any news on the SIPE front?

clokep on November 16, 2012 at 11:31 am said:

Any news would be in the bug: https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=976 I currently have a set of patches up that work on Linux and Windows, but it is awaiting review from another developer. Hopefully we’ll get it into the next version.

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Looks nice. Unfortunately I won’t be switching before there is OTR support. Maybe this [1] otr code written in javascript will help us eventually to bake a plugin for IB eventually.

[1] https://github.com/arlolra/otr

clokep on November 16, 2012 at 1:36 pm said:

It’d be great for someone to implement OTR (https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877), if you’re interested in doing this…definitely pop on IRC and contact us. I had looked at that code once before and wasn’t fully happy with it. But it’d be possible it could be a good starting place for an implementation!

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Norton and Symantec.cloud detect Instantbird 1.3 setup detect as infected with “Suspicious.Cloud.7.F”. Check please!!

clokep on November 19, 2012 at 7:03 pm said:

There’s certainly no malware in it, I’ve sent Symantec a false positive report.
- Eugenio Velazquez on November 20, 2012 at 4:24 pm said:
  
  It work’s; Symantec no longer detects a Instantbird 1.3 as a security risk. :)

Thank you ^_^

Now twitter inf instantbird is much more fun :D

Hey there, thanks for the awesome app. Keep improving it.
And talking about improvements, one sort suggestion here.
Sort tabs by protocol (mostly for muc windows) with an option for which protocol the rule applies. Which means muc windows will be open in tabs in separate window from your single user chat if you choose that option, but if muc window opens a single user chat (like query in irc) instead opening it separately, tab will be opened where other irc tabs are.

Also option for buddy list to be able to sort by: status, protocol, alphabetically in order which you can choose.

clokep on November 28, 2012 at 4:56 pm said:

Thanks for the feedback.

Separating things by protocol is something we will not include in Instantbird, an add-on can do it easily though.

An add-on exists to sort by status: https://addons.instantbird.org/en-US/instantbird/addon/317, it could be modified very easily to also sort by protocol.

Can someone help me? I need support of mail.ru agent protocol.
I tried to do it in two ways:
1) use plugin for pidgin
2) use xmpp transport to this protocol
both way failed. Could someone help me?
System - win7 x32

clokep on December 5, 2012 at 2:06 pm said:

Replying here (in case someone else has similar questions), even though we talked on IRC:

1. You must recompile Pidgin protocol plug-ins for Instantbird.

2. Instantbird doesn’t currently have a way to configure XMPP transports, no. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.instantbird.org.

Cam on November 16, 2012 at 5:50 am said:

Any news on the SIPE front?
- clokep on November 16, 2012 at 11:31 am said:
  
  Any news would be in the bug: https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=976 I currently have a set of patches up that work on Linux and Windows, but it is awaiting review from another developer. Hopefully we’ll get it into the next version.
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Tim on November 16, 2012 at 11:39 am said:

Looks nice. Unfortunately I won’t be switching before there is OTR support. Maybe this [1] otr code written in javascript will help us eventually to bake a plugin for IB eventually.

[1] https://github.com/arlolra/otr
- clokep on November 16, 2012 at 1:36 pm said:
  
  It’d be great for someone to implement OTR (https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877), if you’re interested in doing this…definitely pop on IRC and contact us. I had looked at that code once before and wasn’t fully happy with it. But it’d be possible it could be a good starting place for an implementation!
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Eugenio Velazquez on November 19, 2012 at 5:24 pm said:

Norton and Symantec.cloud detect Instantbird 1.3 setup detect as infected with “Suspicious.Cloud.7.F”. Check please!!
- clokep on November 19, 2012 at 7:03 pm said:
  
  There’s certainly no malware in it, I’ve sent Symantec a false positive report.
  - Eugenio Velazquez on November 20, 2012 at 4:24 pm said:
    
    It work’s; Symantec no longer detects a Instantbird 1.3 as a security risk. :)
Amin Asoode on November 20, 2012 at 8:33 am said:

Thank you ^_^

Now twitter inf instantbird is much more fun :D
RongYao on November 28, 2012 at 4:07 pm said:

Hey there, thanks for the awesome app. Keep improving it.

And talking about improvements, one sort suggestion here.

Sort tabs by protocol (mostly for muc windows) with an option for which protocol the rule applies. Which means muc windows will be open in tabs in separate window from your single user chat if you choose that option, but if muc window opens a single user chat (like query in irc) instead opening it separately, tab will be opened where other irc tabs are.

Also option for buddy list to be able to sort by: status, protocol, alphabetically in order which you can choose.
- clokep on November 28, 2012 at 4:56 pm said:
  
  Thanks for the feedback.
  
  Separating things by protocol is something we will not include in Instantbird, an add-on can do it easily though.
  
  An add-on exists to sort by status: https://addons.instantbird.org/en-US/instantbird/addon/317, it could be modified very easily to also sort by protocol.
madarexxx on December 1, 2012 at 2:06 pm said:

Can someone help me? I need support of mail.ru agent protocol.

I tried to do it in two ways:

1) use plugin for pidgin

2) use xmpp transport to this protocol

both way failed. Could someone help me?

System - win7 x32
- clokep on December 5, 2012 at 2:06 pm said:
  
  Replying here (in case someone else has similar questions), even though we talked on IRC:
  
  1. You must recompile Pidgin protocol plug-ins for Instantbird.
  
  2. Instantbird doesn’t currently have a way to configure XMPP transports, no. Please file a bug at http://bugzilla.instantbird.org.