Instantbird v0.3 Alpha 1 releases Mozilla Instant Messenger software

Like Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/29851.html ">mozilla's other software, Instantbird is built on the Mozilla rendering engine and has cross-platform features. Plus Instantbird uses the Libpurple library, which enables it to have the same multi-protocol support capabilities as Pidgin, such as Google Talk, MSN, QQ, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, Gadu-gadu, Yahoo!, and so on. If this is the case, there is nothing particularly appealing to instantbird. But Instantbird developers want to add voice and video capabilities, which is not expected.

Instantbird screenshot

Instantbird is still in the early stages of development, and I feel very limited in my trial, in addition to bugs.

Instantbird is a multi-protocol-enabled instant Messaging client that connects to different IM accounts, uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display messages, and uses Pidgin's libpurple library to connect to different networks.

Instantbird and Firefox have many commonalities, such as the same use of XUL, which also supports plug-ins, themes, and extensions. Think of Firefox is relying on the function of rich, unlimited creativity and a large number of expansion gradually become popular, now Mozilla Foundation want to in the IM platform so the weight of the application, in order to compete for IM market.

Instantbird 0.3 Alpha 1 update log:

This release contains very significant changes, including the ability to create JavaScript Kyoto plugins and the upgrade to The Mozilla 2.0 platform. Most of the changes are not verb visible in the user interface, so we would not advise current users of the 0.2 version to update.

However, it recursively basic support for Twitter and are already quite stable; So it'll please early adopters and testers who don ' t go as far as to use nightly builds (abound update themselves everyday with the Newest code). Add-on developers would also be interested, especially because of the new ability to create restartless ons.