MSN - mercury? adium?

[kent_ridge]

I'm using both Mercury and Adium to sign into my MSN account and generally I prefer Mercury but the problem is that it hangs and not respond quite often, 2-3 times today, and I have to force quit. Any comments? Before I removed the orginal mercury folder, they gave me lots of errors that I had to delete the files and reinstall to log in.

Is Adium made not to show new incoming mails? That's the only thing I dislike about Adium.

 

[4409723]

Is Adium made not to show new incoming mails? That's the only thing I dislike about Adium.

Adium can do this, you need to look around the options for your MSN account.

 

[Mord]

what version of mercury are you useing? 1709 is still in beta so it may be dodgy on your mac.

 

[russed]

i have tried them both and by far - adium is the best, its just much nicer in my opinion!

 

[iindigo]

Adium kicks serious butt for any IM network, I'd just stick with it -

 

[rickvanr]

Try Proteus.. very pretty and shows incoming e-mails, etc.. Adium is good too, I've used both, and they're both good. I just don't organize contacts in groups, and I prefer Proteus' message center, so I'm a Proteus user.

Aside from webcam support, get away from Mercury, Java apps are ugly and often sluggish. Gaim-vv will be out sometime soon, and I'm sure Proteus and Adium will pick up the standard.

 

[kent_ridge]

Explored around but I still can't find the incoming mail alert thing.

Ya, I'm still using 1709.

Mercury starts itself everytime I on my powerbook. Any idea where the options to disable this is?

Sorry, really am really new at this. =\

 

[Abstract]

Don't worry, I'm new at this too. I've only ever used Adium, but since I don't believe the smilies in Adium show up right in Messenger, I can't be bothered to use it.

Also, I'm looking into Mercury once they get video chat up and running!

 

[4409723]

I've only ever used Adium, but since I don't believe the smilies in Adium show up right in Messenger, I can't be bothered to use it.

Sounds like you need smilie packs, available off www.adiumxtras.com

Explored around but I still can't find the incoming mail alert thing.

This should help...

 

[kent_ridge]

Thanks a lot!! Finally got what I want.

=))

 

[Mord]

Explored around but I still can't find the incoming mail alert thing.

Ya, I'm still using 1709.

Mercury starts itself everytime I on my powerbook. Any idea where the options to disable this is?

Sorry, really am really new at this. =\

if it's dodgy downgrade to 1708 thats the latest stable release, to make it so it dose not start on it's own just go into system preferences/accounts/login items then delete mercury, personally i never turn my ibook off, there is no point so this never bothers me.

 

[MBHockey]

<3 Adium.

 

[kent_ridge]

Okie.. I just deleted mercury off my powerbook since I guess I won't be using it.