Instantbird Portable is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client. The application can be used in order to connect to all your different Instant Messaging accounts.
It uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks.
Instantbird Portable is a free and open source software, so you are allowed to use, distribute and modify it.
What's New in This Release:
· Major accessibility improvements.
IRC improvements:
· Long messages will be sent in multiple parts instead of being cut off.
· SASL authentication is now supported, this is required for certain IP ranges or when using Tor and connecting to Freenode.
Twitter improvements:
· Your own description is now shown (and editable) above the timeline.
· Replying to a tweet now replies to all users, just like on the Twitter website!
· The tab icon for Twitter timelines is now the Twitter bird to more explicitly differentiate a timeline from a chat window.
· The "Show Nick" add-on was integrated. This highlights when a user's nickname is mentioned in a chat to easily see conversations that are occurring. We hope you will enjoy this new feature, but if you don't you can disable it by setting the advanced preference "messenger.conversations.showNicks" to false in about:config.
· Two new social networks were added via XMPP: Odnoklassniki and VKontakte.
Under the Hood:
· Updated: Instantbird 1.3 is based Mozilla ...