New Instant Messenger from Mozilla

Posted on October 23, 2007, 8:35 pm, by Arstan, under Open Source.

Instantbird is a new project launched by Mozilla Foundation, a foundation behind popular web browser Firefox and E-Mail client Thunderbird.

Instantbird will be based on Mozilla technologies and use Pidgin’s libpurple to deliver you a brand new messenger.

Just like Pidgin(prev. Gaim) Instantbird will support:

  • AIM
  • Gadu-Gadu
  • Google Talk
  • ICQ
  • MSN
  • QQ
  • XMPP
  • Yahoo!

I’ve tried Instantbird v.01 myself and I think it’s very light, default installation lets you do text messaging only. But there are plugins and add-ons of course.

Good luck to Mozilla, with the experience of creating state of the art browser and E-Mail client I really hope they will launch a very good messenger!

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2 Comments

  1. Michael says:
    October 24, 2007 at 4:45 pm

    Do you think InstantBird is a good name for it?

  2. admin says:
    October 25, 2007 at 5:51 pm

    Its all about choices, we need more choices. And I’m sure they will come out with something extra/different from what we have right now.

    Let’s see what they will bring to the market!

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