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Windows Live Messenger (pg. 2)
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| Djsketchbag |
| I like "Live" it did take some getting use too |
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| RobSt*r |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
I've been using Live Messenger since the beta days (well over 5 months) and it is awesome. Highly recommended. |
+1
No complaints here. |
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| klago |
I usually have 5 to 7 tabs open.
I've seen firefox use up to half a gig of RAM. The memory usage is definately better with this version. I'm running 1.5.0.7 right now.
The Beta of version 2 is out there. I use it at home but am not a fan of the tab scrolly thing. |
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| King Luis |
i got live at home...i like it. does take up too much memory though.
but thats microsoft. |
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| dEsidEL |
seriously , is the additional memory consumption worth the extra emoticon .. ??
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| Cosmic Fur |
Right now WML is using 30 megs of memory, which isn't much unless you have like 256 megs of RAM total. It runs fine even on my 512mb laptop. The thing is, in stock form, Messenger Live BLOWS. Ads, useless buttons, bad layout, stupid searchbars, etc etc all clutter the interface that it's nearly impossible to use. Luckily, there's the Mess patch from www.mess.be and Messenger Plus (google it). With both those patches installed, Messenger becomes a really nifty program to use. I would recommend trying Live with both those patches applied, and see if you like it; if you don't you can always roll back to 7.5.
I used to be a Trillian fanboy a few years ago, but then Messenger added a lot of features that only applied to MSN, and Trillian never caught up with them. Plus with the patches, I get a lot of the features Trillian users have, save for skinning support. Also, Trillian may eat less memory, but I remember it being A LOT slower than MSN. |
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| ShadoWolf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
I used to be a Trillian fanboy a few years ago, but then Messenger added a lot of features that only applied to MSN, and Trillian never caught up with them. Plus with the patches, I get a lot of the features Trillian users have, save for skinning support. Also, Trillian may eat less memory, but I remember it being A LOT slower than MSN. |
There's a Plus plugin for Trillian.
http://www.trillian.cc/downloads/detail.php?item=253
Plus v. 3.1 has many of the features you alluded to (inc. video chat, etc.). |
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| klago |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
Messenger Live BLOWS. Ads, useless buttons, bad layout, stupid searchbars, etc etc all clutter the interface that it's nearly impossible to use. Luckily, there's the Mess patch from www.mess.be and Messenger Plus (google it). |
Messenger Plus can be found at www.patchou.com |
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| Cosmic Fur |
That's not what I meant. I meant more like support for personal display names, and contact card integration. |
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| Chris Allen |
Been using messenger since original alpha stages for testing, then into beta, then public beta, etc. Currently on version 8.0.0812.
I find it much more stable than MSN 7.5. New features, meh, sure. Only one I really use is the type to find contact list and how if you're sending a file it doesn't snap back to the bottom all the time if you keep typing to that person. But they're nothing special other than that.
As for Trillian goes: I couldn't use it do to the major bugs that it had that they decided to never fix. It's a great program but some of the bugs just pushed me too far away. Currently, they're in beta testing stages for Trillian Astra (v.4). They will be hitting a public beta in the near future. Most likely by that time I will (hopefully) be on a Mac and will be using Adium. |
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| SniFFleS |
| i cant use any of the new messengers, my computer is only allowing me to use the original windows messenger. The toubleshooting says everything is fine, has anyone else had this problem. Must be somehting to do with the internet settings. |
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| dEsidEL |
ICQ98a was the perfect IM and that was 8 years ago. sometimes i feel that technology has actually regressed society..
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