Trillian Astra 4.1.0.15 Beta Fileforum Pick

4.2 out of 5 stars 4.2 (89 votes)

BETA (October 29, 2009)

Windows 7/2000/Vista/XP / Freeware / 3,861 downloads

Trillian is a multi-network chat client that currently supports IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger. It supports all of the features you've come to expect from a good IM client, including but not limited to docking, multi-line edit boxes, buddy alerts, multiple connections to the same medium, a powerful skinning language, easy importing of your existing contacts, skinnable emoticons, logging, "global" away/invisible features, and a unified contact list. It is completely free with no nag screens or built-in ads.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    y0himba

    Reviewing 4.1.0.15 Beta (Oct 30, 2009)

    Quite simply my messenger of choice since 2001. Quite simply, it is beautiful. The options for skinning and plugins alone make Digsby look like ICQ version 1. The folks who develop the software are reachable and work hard at making sure that the software works well. Plus, as a member, you get the wbe version which is invaluable to me.

    This is a software worth downloading, and if you like the free version it is more than worth the money to with everything it has to offer.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 4.1.0.15 Beta (Oct 30, 2009)

    The default Astra skin sucks a** and always will, BUT switching skins to back to the classic Cobalt brings everything back to normal.

    Overall I think Trillian is the best all-around messenger on the market.

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    thartist

    Reviewing 4.1.0.15 Beta (Oct 29, 2009)

    @netean: 70MB for 5 accounts is resourcy? you must love 1997 and barebone applications. who cares...

    Anyway, always felt awkward, still does, probably always will.

  4. 2 out of 5 stars
    netean

    Reviewing 4.0.0.118 (Oct 29, 2009)

    if you have a monster amount of RAM, then maybe give this a go. Otherwise if you're not running with oodles of free RAM I'd give this a miss, it's very very memory heavy.

    After startup, connecting to 5 services it's showing up as using 70Mb+ - that's an awful lot of memory to just sit there waiting for an instant message to arrive.

    I thought pidgin was a bit resource heavy at 22Mb, but it's an absolutely lightweight by comparison.

    I'm afraid once I saw that usage I uninstalled quickly, I generally have lots of apps running and not a lot of free ram on my 2gb system is spare. I can't afford to waste it on memory heavy instant messenger.

    Shame, as it looks nice and I used to live old Trillian.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    Sven123456789

    Reviewing 4.0.0.117 (Oct 8, 2009)

    Took me awhile to warm up to this new version. Now I think its great. Especially since they added facebook and myspace to the other im's. Little bit of a pain to set up, but once you do, its great. And for the people pushing miranda and Pidgin, its not even close,. Everything about this is much better.

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