Whats your favourite Instant Messenger?

I think that Google Talk is the best because it looks better than MSN and it also doesnt have too many buttons on everything, just what you need to talk.

I prefer GTalk's GUI, but not enough people have it yet!

You have forgotten some major ones - Miranda, for example. (There are more, but I've forgotten aswell)!

Google talk, same as connected, and its simple, no thousands of emoticons for each letter, is was ok, until the letters came a long

What, doesn't that make you a hypocrite? You were the one who had thousands of custom emoticons, I remember, reading your messages was nearly impossible!

i no, but i got bored of the letters, they do make it hard to read, so i deleted them all, the only one i had, and havent deleted is the lol, which was set for olo. Anyway, u hadnt talked to matt. His letters werent for capitals, all of them were set to be emoticons. Its impossible to read. Its like writing hellO can yOu reAd thIs It IS mAde tO be ImoSSIble tO reAd. all of the capitals i used there were emoticons.

Right, I'm glad I don't have to see that then!

I like the way google talk doesn't actually have emoticons, it just makes emoticon text blue, which is cool.

yeah, its cool, cud have a few more things, but it is still in the beta stage, like gmail, so i dont mind. But i still think it was designed by a mac user

How can you be sure it was designed by a Mac user, just cos it looks like a Mac window!

thats how

the fact that it doesnt work on Mac AFAIK seems to show that it is probabily not made by a mac user

yeah, I think the style just suits google - clean and uncluttered (simple, like it's ads).

i prefer msn msg cause theres more people on it and when ur bord u can play games and stuff but g talk is only chattin nothing else but it is very good when ur just doin that its just i spend alot of chatin time in games with people

Yeah, but MSN has now got too much! I like the simplicity of GTalk. If MSN stripped loads of the cr*p off it, it would be much better.

yeah msger dos need some recyleing but its the only 1 iv used that has a the things i want

i do agree wiv that, google talk needs file sharing, multi convos and webcam chat

You must remember that GTalk is still in BETA, they'll probably add some useful tools in a later release of GTalk.

yeah, but hopefully not too many

Finding the right balence will be the key. Or perhaps they could be disabled.

they can on msn

can they? how?

I can only move the tabs up and down! I can't disable them!

I can disable them.

Method 1:
[img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/azcn2503/rocketlauncher.jpg[/img]

Method 2:
[img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/azcn2503/tux.png[/img]

Method 3:
[img]http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a324/azcn2503/disabletabs.jpg[/img]

I found method 3 about a year ago, lol. It wasn't a feature to hide when I posted last time.