Instantbird
Sign in to saveInstantbird is a discontinued cross-platform instant messaging client based on Mozilla's XULRunner and the open-source library libpurple used in Pidgin. Instantbird is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Over 250 add-ons allow user customization of, and addition of, features. On October 18, 2017, Florian Quèze announced that "... we are stopping development of Instantbird as a standalone product."
Key facts
- Software.name
- Instantbird
- Software.logo
- Instantbird-text-256x64.png
- Software.logo size
- 220px
- Software.screenshot
- Instantbird Chat Window Screenshot.png
- Software.screenshot size
- 220px
- Software.caption
- Instantbird chat window
- Software.collapsible
- yes
- Software.released
- 0.1 ()
- Software.discontinued
- Yes
- Software.developer
- Florian Quèze
- Software.programming language
- C/C++, JavaScript, CSS, XUL
- Software.operating system
- Linux OS X Windows
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.language
- Multilanguage
- Software.genre
- IM client
- Software.license
- GNU GPL
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Official website
Instantbird
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.instantbird.com
- Image
- Instastbird 1.1 roster (contact list).png
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- software version identifier
- 1.5
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- Instantbird
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5 sectionsContents
- Supported protocols
- Features
- Reception
- References
- External links
Instantbird is a discontinued cross-platform instant messaging client based on Mozilla's XULRunner and the open-source library libpurple used in Pidgin. Instantbird is free software available under the GNU General Public License. Over 250 add-ons allow user customization of, and addition of, features. On October 18, 2017, Florian Quèze announced that "... we are stopping development of Instantbird as a standalone product."
== Supported protocols == Instantbird began as a chat client based on libpurple and gradually moved toward being a chat client which used a combination of libpurple and its own protocol architecture. Specifically, Instantbird developers wrote their own JavaScript support for IRC, Odnoklassniki, Twitter, XMPP (including Google Talk) and YMSG (used by YIM). The reason writing these in JavaScript, rather than using the faster C code already included with libpurple, had to do with a plan to merge certain protocols into Mozilla Thunderbird.