Instant Messenger clients: Advice please?

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Currently, I'm using Trillian to combine my AIM, MSN and Y! accounts but it
seems to be a bit of a resource hog...I believe the other two are Easy
Message and Miranda.

Which of the three will use fewer resources and be the easiest to use? I
know I've asked about these programs before but this is a little bit of a
different angle...

I would like to read opinions on which seems to be the smallest app, easiest
to work with and
who uses which one? I'll know by that one which I'd probably trust most!!

Thanks! e.t.
 
Currently, I'm using Trillian to combine my AIM, MSN and Y! accounts
but it seems to be a bit of a resource hog...I believe the other two
are Easy Message and Miranda.

Which of the three will use fewer resources and be the easiest to use?
I know I've asked about these programs before but this is a little
bit of a different angle...

I would like to read opinions on which seems to be the smallest app,
easiest to work with and
who uses which one? I'll know by that one which I'd probably trust
most!!
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e.t. and dct said:
Currently, I'm using Trillian to combine my AIM, MSN and Y!
accounts but it seems to be a bit of a resource hog...I believe the
other two are Easy Message and Miranda.

Which of the three will use fewer resources and be the easiest to
use? I know I've asked about these programs before but this is a
little bit of a different angle...

I would like to read opinions on which seems to be the smallest
app, easiest to work with and
who uses which one? I'll know by that one which I'd probably trust
most!!
Click to expand...

Tried Trillian, prefer Miranda. Very easy to use.

At the moment, it is using 0.09% CPU (1200MHz) and 3,356 KB in memory

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dadiOH said:
Tried Trillian, prefer Miranda. Very easy to use.

At the moment, it is using 0.09% CPU (1200MHz) and 3,356 KB in memory

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dadiOH
_____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
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when was it last updated ?
 
Miranda. Uses very little resources - easy to use. I haven't tried the
other one you mentioned.
 
*ProteanThread* said:
when was it last updated ?
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Never. It is version .0.3.1 from last summer. Works fine, no reason to
update.

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dadiOH
_____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
____________________________
 
e.t. and dct said:
Currently, I'm using Trillian to combine my AIM, MSN and Y! accounts
but it seems to be a bit of a resource hog...I believe the other two
are Easy Message and Miranda.

Which of the three will use fewer resources and be the easiest to
use? I know I've asked about these programs before but this is a
little bit of a different angle...

I would like to read opinions on which seems to be the smallest app,
easiest to work with and
who uses which one? I'll know by that one which I'd probably trust
most!!

Thanks! e.t.
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Easy Message crashed every other day on my win98SEand some features just
didn't work, so I switched to Miranda, took a while to figure everything
out, but wouldn't go back to anything else now, great plug-ins, small,
reliable.
 
["Ghost In The Shell"; Sun, 23 May 2004 23:10:37 GMT]
Good, small, and stable. They even have the Yahoo messenger up and
workable now.
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I stopped using Miranda because of its lousy Y! plug-in. Does it have a
decent one?
 
["jo"; Sun, 23 May 2004 23:01:30 GMT]
Miranda is very good.
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Having to wade through hundreds and hundreds of poorly-arranged plug-ins,
though, can be a hassle.
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....this was definitely another reason I stopped using Miranda.
Functionality can be dependent on the amount of free time one has to wade
through tons of mostly useless or redundant plug-ins to find the ones that
are useful.
 
["Ghost In The Shell"; Sun, 23 May 2004 23:10:37 GMT]
Good, small, and stable. They even have the Yahoo messenger up and
workable now.
Click to expand...

I stopped using Miranda because of its lousy Y! plug-in. Does it have a
decent one?
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Last time I tried Miranda (a few months ago), the AOL plug-in didn't use
the OSCAR protocol, thus many of the features of AIM didn't work. So, I'd
say that the AOL AIM plug-in is pretty lousy, too.

That was just one reason I gave it up...
 
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