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Instantbird Portable v1.4 Updated

Checker on 23 May 2013

Instantbird is a simple and easy to use instant messaging client with support all the major networks. The program has a tabbed interface and similar look and feel to Firefox/Thunderbird (uses the Mozilla codebase), and includes support for customization using themes and add-ons.

Available networks include AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, Twitter, Facebook, XMPP, IRC, ICQ, and more.

Instantbird Portable is a version in PortableApps.com format.

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. In the event of a crash, saves info to AppData
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: GPL and Mozilla tri-license (MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1)
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch InstantbirdPortable.exe.
What's new?
  • The log viewer now groups your conversations by date.
  • Twitter improvements
    - The character counter for Twitter has been improved to take into account automatic link shortening, allowing you to easily tweet links without worrying about their length!
    - Updated to the Twitter API v1.1, note that Instantbird 1.3 may stop working with Twitter on June 11th, 2013!
    - Twitter now includes everyone you follow as a participant in your timeline.
  • IRC authentication works better with bouncers (e.g. ZNC).
  • You can now easily override self-signed/invalid/out-of-date certificates for IRC servers.
  • Each account now keeps debug logs which can be accessed by right clicking on the account in the Account Manager and choosing "Copy Debug Logs", these contain essential information for developers to diagnose user issues. (Note that debug logs MAY contain sensitive information.)
  • Under the Hood
    - Updated: Instantbird 1.4 is based on Mozilla 20.0.1 and uses libpurple 2.10.7!
    - Mac OS X < 10.6 is no longer supported, please upgrade your operating system or continue using Instantbird 1.3.
Latest comments
webfork on 2011-11-15 22:30

Love the simplicity, ease of use, familiar look and feel, but the program doesn't reconnect when there's a connection problem (I have a bad one) so I'm constantly restarting the program.

webfork on 2012-08-25 17:59

Update fixed reconnection problems. Very happy with this.

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Miranda IM v0.10.13 Updated

Checker on 21 May 2013

Miranda IM is an extensible, customizable instant messenger client supporting AIM, ICQ, IRC, Gadu Gadu, MSN, Yahoo and Jabber. The program can support more protocols via an extended plugin system to include Netsend, Skype, Facebook, etc. and an add-on system can add other features such as skins, an RSS feed reader, weather alert, world clock, secure messaging, etc.

Alternatively, Miranda IM Portable is another portable version.

Category:
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes. There are now two versions: Unicode for NT/2K/XP/Vista/7 and ANSI for Win9x/ME.
License: GPL
How to extract: There are several options:

Using the installer
  1. Download the installer and run
  2. Accept the License Agreement, select Portable Installation, choose a destination folder, and Install
  3. Launch miranda32.exe
OR

Using the 7zip versions:

32-bit:
  1. Download the 7z package (ANSI for Win9x/ME, UNICODE for all others) and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Rename mirandaboot-example.ini to mirandaboot.ini
  3. Open mirandaboot.ini in a text editor, find "ProfileDir=", and add ".\Profile" to the end of the line
  4. Save changes
  5. Launch miranda32.exe
x64:
  1. Download the 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch miranda64.exe
What's new? Bugfixes:
  • Add notification on account creation name duplication error
  • Updated installer to properly close Miranda during install process
  • Reduced installer size
Latest comments
freakazoid on 2010-07-02 17:41

I see that Miranda is not stealth; can whomever is updating listing put in whereabouts it leaks?

Smurf on 2011-01-18 08:04

I think there might be some issues with v0.9.13 (WinXP). Since upgrading, the program window vanishes from desktop and taskbar, and can't be reinvoked other than by running the program again. Task manager shows its still running tho. I've gone back to 9.11 which works fine.

abc on 2012-01-22 18:21

Portable apps is hosting an outdated copy, v0.9.35.

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Pidgin Portable v2.10.7

Checker on 15 Feb 2013
  • 56MB (uncompressed)
  • Suggested by USB_Kx

Pidgin is an easy-to-use multi-protocol instant messaging client with a tabbed interface, customizable sounds, themes, and more. Supports a long list of networks including AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and IRC, as well as 85 world languages.

Pidgin Portable is a version of the program from PortableApps. A wide variety of plugins are available to add more features including networks, security, interface tweaks, and more.

Alternate portable versions:

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. gtk bookmarks
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PidginPortable.exe.
What's new? General:
  • The configure script will now exit with status 1 when specifying invalid protocol plugins using the --with-static-prpls and --with-dynamic-prpls arguments
libpurple:
  • Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values
  • Don't link directly to libgcrypt when building with GnuTLS support
  • Fix UPnP mappings on routers that return empty elements in their response
  • Tcl plugin uses saner, race-free plugin loading
  • Fix the Tcl signals-test plugin for savedstatus-changed
Pidgin:
  • Make Pidgin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts?' +no_x11 variant
Gadu-Gadu:
  • Fix a crash at startup with large contact list. Avatar support for buddies will be disabled until 3.0.0
IRC:
  • Support for SASL authentication
  • Print topic setter information at channel join
MSN:
  • Fix SSL certificate issue when signing into MSN for some users
  • Fix a crash when removing a user before its icon is loaded
MXit:
  • Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local file path to be written to
  • Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted data that could overflow a buffer and lead to a crash or remote code execution
  • Display farewell messages in a different colour to distinguish them from normal messages
  • Add support for typing notification
  • Add support for the Relationship Status profile attribute
  • Remove all reference to Hidden NumberIgnore new invites to join a GroupChat? if you're already joined, or still have a pending invite.
  • The buddy's name was not centered vertically in the buddy-list if they did not have a status-message or mood set
  • Fix decoding of font-size changes in the markup of received messages
  • Increase the maximum file size that can be transferred to 1 MB
  • When setting an avatar image, no longer downscale it to 96x96
Sametime:
  • Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally long user ID
Yahoo:
  • Fix a double-free in profile/picture loading code
  • Fix retrieving server-side buddy aliases
Plugins:
  • The Voice/Video? Settings plugin supports using the sndio GStreamer backends
  • Fix a crash in the Contact Availability Detection plugin
  • Make the Message Notification plugin more friendly to non-X11 GTK+, such as MacPorts?' +no_x11 variant
Windows-Specific Changes:
  • Compile with secure flags
  • Installer downloads GTK+ Runtime and Debug Symbols more securely. Thanks goes to Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project for identifying this issue and suggesting solutions
  • Updates to a number of dependencies, some of which have security related fixes. Thanks again to Jacob Appelbaum and Jurre van Bergen for identifying the vulnerable libraries and to Dieter Verfaillie for helping getting the libraries updated
  • ATK 1.32.0-2
  • Cyrus SASL 2.1.25
  • expat 2.1.0-1
  • freetype 2.4.10-1
  • gettext 0.18.1.1-2
  • Glib 2.28.8-1
  • libpng 1.4.12-1
  • libxml2 2.9.0-1
  • NSS 3.13.6 and NSPR 4.9.2
  • Pango 1.29.4-1
  • SILC 1.1.10
  • zlib 1.2.5-2
  • Patch libmeanwhile (sametime library) to fix crash
Latest comments
rokth on 2011-03-16 20:39

@John Haller. I thought most custom pounce sounds were portable relative to .purple. In fact, any paths that a plugin relies on are also relative to .purple
Wasn't this like when you implied that Pidgin OTR and Pidgin Encryption were not portable?

toilet_duck on 2011-03-16 20:45

@rokth You're right. I've had nothing but success using a proper portable Pidgin build (batch made, not the needless PortableApps version) to run pounces, plugins, etc. all relative to the .purple settings directory. My 2 cents.

JohnTHaller on 2011-03-16 23:09

I think you can manually type paths into pounces that are relative. It's far easier to just click Browse and select it, though. As always, if you're a portable geek who doesn't care about leaving bits behind and are comfortable manually configuring it all and manually typing relative paths, you're fine using the guidelines.

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LiveContactsView v1.22 Updated

webfork on 14 May 2013

LiveContactsView allows you to view the details of all contacts in your Windows Live Messenger. For each contact, the program displays email address, nickname, quick name, first/last name, and more. You can easily select one or more contacts and then export them into text/xml/html/csv file, or copy them into the clipboard and then paste them into Excel or to other spreadsheet application.

Category:
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch LiveContactsView.exe.
What's new?
  • Fixed bug: In some contacts files, LiveContactsView failed to read most of the fields.

aMSN Portable v0.98.9

lautrepay on 2 Jul 2012

aMSN is a instant messaging client for the MSN network that attempts to mimic the look and feel of Windows Live Messenger. Features include offline messaging, voice clips, webcam support, custom emoticons, multiple sign-ins, file transfers, group and conferencing support, normal, and animated emoticons with sounds, chat logs, event alarms, and more.

Many plugins and skins are available to add features or change the appearance. Open source and multi-platform.

aMSN Portable is packaged in PortableApps.com Format for portable use alone or with the PortableApps.com Platform. Alternatively, X-aMSN is also available.

Category:
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch aMSNPortable.exe.
What's new?
  • bugfix release
  • new features and stability/security fixes

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