Invalid XMPP ID. What's the problem?Not Authorized. What's the problem?No, with Instantbird you can use all your existing instant messaging accounts in a single application. If you already use instant messaging, you don't need to create a new account to start using Instantbird.
Instantbird currently supports Windows XP SP2 or later, Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and Linux. See thesystem requirements page for details.
A download link on thehomepage will automatically select for you the version of Instantbird that appears to be the most suitable for your system. If you want to select yourself your operating system and language, go to thedownload page.
Absolutely!
Absolutely! Instantbird and other clients can coexist on the same computer without causing any trouble.
Instantbird is packaged for Windows as an executable installer. Just launch the file you have downloaded, and let it guide you through the setup process.
Double click on the Instantbird disk image (a file with a name ending by ".dmg") you have downloaded. Then drag the Instantbird icon to the Applications folder.
Extract the content of the downloaded archive, and launch the file named "instantbird". If a popup dialog asks you if you want to edit or launch the file, select "launch".
We currently only provide 32-bit builds. In order to run these on a 64-bit system, you will have to install the 32-bit compatibility libraries provided by your distribution. For example, on Ubuntu, install the packageia32-libs by runningsudo apt-get install ia32-libs from the command line.
If you start Instantbird from a USB stick, it will, by default, store your user profile on the hard disk.
You can tell Instantbird to store your user profile on the USB stick by using the-profile command line argument.
To do this, right click on theinstantbird.exe file and select "Create Shortcut", then on the properties of the shortcut, edit the target and append -profile ./foldername to it.
No, by default Instantbird will periodically check for updates and request your permission to update itself if a new version is found.
If you don't like this behavior, you can modify it from the preferences dialog.
There's aCheck for updates menu item (accessible from theHelp menu) so that you don't have to wait for the update prompt if you know an update exists.
Yes.
Compatible add-ons will still work after the update. If an add-on is not compatible with the updated version of Instantbird, Instantbird will propose to check if a newer version of the add-on is available and to update it.
If your add-on no longer works after an update, you may want to contact the author to find out if an updated version is in the making.
On Windows, if you have used the installer, you can uninstall Instantbird from the control panel like you would uninstall any other application.
In other cases, you can just remove the Instantbird folder.
Removing Instantbird won't remove your accounts, chat history, extensions or other add-ons. This data is stored in yourprofile folder.
Any version of Instantbird that you install after removing Instantbird will continue to use the data from that folder.
Yes, you can be connected to several accounts from any of the supported protocols at the same time.
Use theAccount manager (accessible from theTools menu) to add another account.
Currently Instantbird supports by default: AIM, Bonjour, Facebook Chat, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, Netsoul, Odnoklassniki, QQ, Simple, Twitter, VKontakte, XMPP, Yahoo and Yahoo JAPAN.
Additional protocol plugins can be installed asadd-ons.
Invalid XMPP ID. What's the problem?You have entered as your username the email address you use to login to the Facebook website. Facebook chat expects you to use your unique username in this field. Go tohttp://www.facebook.com/username/ to check it.
Not Authorized. What's the problem?You need to enable XMPP connections to your Facebook account.
You can search for add-ons from theGet Addons tab of the Addons manager (accessible from theTools menu) where you will see some recommended add-ons. For more, you can go toInstantbird's add-on website where you can also browses experimental add-ons and post reviews.
Yes, Instantbird is creating log files by default. Use the settings on thePrivacy pane in theOptions dialog to configure it to your liking. If you like to have a look at the files themselves, use theShow log folder... button on the same pane.
The name and path of the log files are as follows:path to profile/logs/protocol/buddy or chat name/date and time.txt (replace the parts in italic by actual values).
It is located in one of the following locations depending on your operating system:
| Windows | %appdata%\Instantbird\Profiles\ (copy and paste this exactly in the Windows explorer) |
| Mac OS X | ~/Library/Application Support/Instantbird/Profiles/ |
| Linux (Unix) | ~/.instantbird/ |
Any version of Instantbird that you install after removing Instantbird will continue to use the data from this profile folder.
While we discourage using it, about:config is accessible from theAdvanced tab of the preferences dialog.
We bring you Instantbird becausewe believe instant messaging is an important component of your online life.
Instantbird is licensed to you under the terms of the GNU GPL license version 2.0 or later (because it uses libpurple which is GPL licensed). However, most of the source code is also licensed with the Mozilla Public License (MPL), version 2.0.
A tarball of the source code of each released version is available from thedownload page. The latest development code can be obtained from our Mercurial code repository by following thebuild instructions.
We area small team of highly motivated individuals, but we hope a lot of people, including you, will join us to make this project even better.
The Mozilla foundation has not helped us financially.
The "Powered by Mozilla" logo on our frontpage means that Instantbird relies on code and technologies that are developed by the Mozilla community. We are very grateful to the Mozilla community as a whole for the amazing technologies on which Instantbird is based.
There are several ways to take part in the project. You don't need to be a computer programmer to help us. Seeget involved for details.
Yes! See thetranslation wiki page for details.
See theextensions wiki page.
Not 'out of the box', but most of them can be adapted. See theporting Firefox extensions page.
To stay informed of the important news, you probably want to followour blog.
If you want to follow our discussions, you are welcome to join us in our IRC chatroom:#instantbird on the irc.mozilla.org server.
Nightly builds are produced everyday so that people can help us testing the features that have just been added. Feel free to use them, but watch out! They may not be stable, and if you decide to use them, you are expected to do so to help us test the bleeding edge features, not just be a cool kid who's got the new toy first. So if there are bugs, pleasereport them (Filing a bug: what a bug report should contain) instead of complaining.
See theroadmap.
We are very excited about this project and pleased that you share our desire to move forward as fast as possible. However, owing to the nature of software development, it could be problematic to give deadlines and we see maintaining quality as more important.
See theroadmap.
Feel free to discuss with us things that aren't listed to know if we are interested or if the they can be implemented as add-ons.
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