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- Free software under the General Public License.
- Works on Windows, Amiga and Unix-like systems (Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc).
- Support for Bonjour, Gadu Gadu, Groupwise, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Myspace IM, Oscar, QQ, SILC, Simple, Sametime, Yahoo and Zephyr.
- Translated to over 60 languages.
- Extensible through plugins.
- Pounce actions for when your buddies come online.
- Buddy aliasing.
- Comes with a console chat client: Finch.
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- Every feature Pidgin has... plus:
- An option to manually resize the text box or customize the upper and lower limits of auto-resizing.
- An option to set the size of the buddy icons displayed in the chat window.
- An option to set the time delay between status changes.
- Two different ways of seeing that your buddies are typing.
- An option to contrast group titles against the background.
- An option to use stock GTK+ close buttons on tabs.
- Options to always show and/or set the width of tabs.
- The option to combine protocol and status icons.
- Sean Egan's experimental Adium Message Styles plugin.
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We'd like to thank the Pidgin developers for fixing the persistent window placement problem, making the Send Button plugin and granting somewhat more flexibility with buddy icon size and textbox size.
