Alternatives to MSN Live Messenger

[LustyLew]

Righto,

For some reason Live Messenger likes to eat up memory and CPU like there's no tomorrow (thanks VISTA!).

I'm after an alternative that is a little less memory hungry. Only really use it for chat, so not too fussed about webcam and funky emoticons.

Any suggestions?
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[Colin Edwards]

Trillian:

https://www.ceruleanstudios.com/

Can have all your accounts in one app... MSN, ICQ, YAHOO and AIM etc

If you leave your account on and go away you can see when your accounts came and went offline..

CE

[yandy_yay]

actually sit down and have a real conversation with your missus

Not a recommened past time BTW

Andy
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[Phil.]

i have been using pidgin for some time. Does what i need a messenger to do, send messages.

So no more nudges, pokes, kisses, pressing the search button instead of send and most importantly, no adverts!

[djr]

[G]

I just use www.ebuddy.com, but rarely actually use it, so web stuff isn't a big issue for me.

[st3v3]

As above, although www.meebo.com is another good one.
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[djr]

Or use the microsoft one https://webmessenger.msn.com...

[map]

I have used Pidgin and it's ok.
However, came across aMSN so going to give that a try.

What I'm looking for is an alternative that does support webcams.
Any suggestions?


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[LustyLew]

Cheers guys, will give a some a go tonight.

I've just got fed up, for no reason MSN Live eats up 98% of my CPU adn the laptop grinds to a halt! Might even consider rolling back to XP if I can find the drivers and a licence for it!
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[Mick_Rs]

Yahoo Is Also Good

[Nufkamp]

I've just installed Trillian, I really dont want to be running 3 or 4 IM apps in order to reach everyone I need to reach. Looking good so far.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Mercury?
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[JonB]

My MSN process is using 65,000k.

I must have more friends than you.
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[LustyLew]

Well,

I installed aMSN and it's been a marked improvement. Also now back to firefox as it uses about 150Mb less RAM than IE7.

Vista can be blamed as it appears to be totally shit at handling memory! And any slight issue it ramps up the CPU to 99% which means EVERYTHING grinds to a halt!
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[Rob]

[djr]

[Rob]

ROFL
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