Overview of Jabber clients under Windows

When transferring friends and acquaintances with icq to jabber, I ran into the problem: which client to transfer the user to? In the transition process, it turns out that there are quite a lot of customers, and by and large users are interested in the appearance of the client. Under the cat a brief overview of jabber clients under Windows.

Immediately, I’ll note that it’s difficult for one person to evaluate and find all the pros and cons of customers, so if you have something to add, or you are using a customer not on the list, feel free to write in a comment.


Name: Coccinella
url: http://thecoccinella.org/
Installation file size: ~ 6MB
Pros:

• Voice support
• drawing board
• plugin support

Minuses:

• In windows 7 I have some problems with the encoding when writing a message, maybe in the Russian version of windows there are no such problems.

Name: jabbim
url: http://www.jabbim.com/
Installation file size: ~ 16Mb
Pros:

• add-on support
• There is something like a web disk, but it did not work
• Conference Bookmarks

Minuses:

• There are bookmarks for Czech conferences that cannot be deleted.
• and some more unnecessary tabs

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Name: pidgin
url: http://pidgin.im
Installation file size: ~ 14Mb
Pros:

• he pulls the necessary files to check the spelling.
• Multiprotocol

Minuses:

• lack of service overview

Name: Spark
url: http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/index.jsp
Installation file size: ~ 14mb without JRE
Pros:

• the ability to send messages to all contacts from the roster.
• Task sheets
• Notebook
• Plugin support

Cons: the impossibility of the usual transition to offline, only exit from the account.



Name: Tkabber
url: http://tkabber.jabber.ru/
Installation file size: ~ 4mb windows installer
XEP supported: 46
Pros:

• support for a large number of xmpp extensions
• many settings
• plugin support
• latex formula support
• Conference Bookmarks
• metacontacts

Minuses:

• unusual interface
• many settings

Name: exodus
url: http://code.google.com/p/exodus/
Installation file size: ~ 3 mb
Pros:

• spellchecking
• plugin support

Cons: the lack of Russified interface



Name: Jajc
url: http://jajc.jrudevels.org/
Installation file size: ~ 2mb
Pros:

• Plugin support
• not demanding on resources

Minuses: offline messages are not inserted into the general chat window, but are displayed in a separate window in a box.






Name: pandion
url: http://www.pandion.be/
Installation file size: ~ 2mb
Pluses: plugin support
Cons: Last updated January 7, 2006



Name: Ya.Online
url: online.yandex.ru
Installation file size: ~ 8mb
Pros:

• Message read notifications
• support of social networks (Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte)

Minuses:

• lack of conference support
• inability to connect transports
• when using 2 or more accounts, trying to add a new contact to all roasters

Title: Google Talk
url: www.google.com/talk/intl/ru
Size of installation file: ~ 1,5mb
Pros:

• voice support
• video transmission

Minuses:

• Limited number of statuses
• You can only tell about yourself Name and Avatar
• you can use only google account or linked via google apps to your own domain
• lack of conference support
• inability to review services
• problem with avatars

Name: Gajim
url: http://gajim.org/
Installation file size: ~ 12 mb
XEP supported: 41
Pros:

• room bookmarks
• connecting spell checker
• latex formula support
• metacontacts
• PGP encryption support

Minuses:






Name: Psi + modification Psi
url: http://psi-dev.googlecode.com/
Installation file size: ~ 12mb
XEP supported: 39
Pros:

• custom interface
• connecting spell checker
• Conference Bookmarks
• PGP encryption support
• the ability to call psi asf@asf.ru to launch a message box, allows you to add it as a processing of links like xmpp: asf@asf.ru.
  

Minuses:



Name: Miranda
url: http://www.miranda-im.org/
Installation file size: ~ 2mb
XEP supported: 45
Pros:

• support for a large number of xmpp extensions
• no need to get used to the new interface
• many settings
• Conference Bookmarks
• support for add-ons, including spell checking, support for latex formulas
• custom appearance example

Minuses:

• many settings

Name: Qip Infium
url: http://qip.ru
Installation file size: ~ 4 mb
Number of supported XEP: 17
Pros:

• no need to get used to the new interface
• add-on support
• Conference Bookmarks

Minuses:

• it is necessary to register an additional account on qip.ru
• not stable

Name: Digsby
url: http://www.digsby.com/
Installation file size: ~? mb
Pros:

• multiprotocol
• support of social networks (Twitter, Facebook and MySpace)

Minuses:

• requires additional account registration
• no conferencing support
• lack of service overview

Name: neos
url: http://www.neosmt.com/
Installation file size: ~ 4 mb
Pros:

• voice transmission
• video transmission
• drawing board
• collaborative browser

Minuses:

• lack of Russified interface

Name: glu (xeus)
url: http://xeus-messenger.blogspot.com/
Size of installation file: ~ 1 mb
Feature: not a standard arrangement of contacts in the roster
Pros: Conference Bookmarks
Minuses:

• lack of Russified interface
• almost no settings
• cannot rename contact