Best messenger on mac

[wazowski]

I wanna use msn, yahoo and ICQ, which is the featureful and most stable IM available?

I am however downloading yahoo messenger but need sure shot alternative for anothers.

Just moved from Windows to mac and i realize i have been such a fool all these years not using mac.

[bobw]

I've been using Fire for a long time, works well.

[Qion]

I've messed around with a lot of instant messenging clients, and I've found Adium is what I stick with.

http://www.adiumx.com/

[nixgeek]

I've used Fire and it's been quite good for me. I also recoemmended Fire to another friend of mine who recently switched to a PowerBook G4 12".

[kingtj]

To be honest, I haven't used "Fire" yet, though I may have to give it a try.
I've been very pleased with the features, regularity of updates, and overall look and feel of Adium. Only complaint I've got with it right now is it seems like right around the time I upgraded to Tiger 10.4 and the time Adium started supporting encrypted "secure chat" features - I started getting a lot of errors causing the application to quit in the middle of using it.

I can't quite pinpoint what causes it, but it seems like it tends to "blow up" more often if I've been doing a secure chat with someone in my "buddy list" and then I close their chat window up, but leave Adium running for a while (maybe even overnight or something). The next time they try to chat with me, it will often say it's re-establishing a session using the existing secure session and then I type 1 or 2 lines of text and it crashes.

Originally Posted by Qion

I've messed around with a lot of instant messenging clients, and I've found Adium is what I stick with.

http://www.adiumx.com/

[Qion]

Originally Posted by kingtj

To be honest, I haven't used "Fire" yet, though I may have to give it a try.
I've been very pleased with the features, regularity of updates, and overall look and feel of Adium. Only complaint I've got with it right now is it seems like right around the time I upgraded to Tiger 10.4 and the time Adium started supporting encrypted "secure chat" features - I started getting a lot of errors causing the application to quit in the middle of using it.

I can't quite pinpoint what causes it, but it seems like it tends to "blow up" more often if I've been doing a secure chat with someone in my "buddy list" and then I close their chat window up, but leave Adium running for a while (maybe even overnight or something). The next time they try to chat with me, it will often say it's re-establishing a session using the existing secure session and then I type 1 or 2 lines of text and it crashes.

Try erasing Adium and reinstalling; I've never had this problem.

[Yellowbeard]

Adium is the way to go, I have been using it for quite awhile now

[AdmiralAK]

is there a messenger out there that does the MSN thing but also offers the video functions of MSN ?