They better release the same for jabber :(

Better support ICQ and MSN. Then maybe I'll use it. ;-) (Bye bye Gaim?)

Well, a jabber client would indirectly support ICQ and MSN. :)

And it really shouldn't be too hard for someone dedicated to hack together. I even wrote myself a really basic one. (In conjunction with a USB drive and portable firefox, it was the easiest way to talk on AIM in the math library. ^_^)

The Jabberzilla project is working towards a real jabber client; I think they are nearing a release. (http://jabberzilla.jabberstudio.org/)

Jabber makes you able to communicate with ICQ users exactly, I know, just connect to a gate and keep ICQ contacts in the same roster as Jabber ones :)))

When I tested aimfire, all I got was a big gray block.

i use miranda icq, which is OSS. it supports aim, icq, jabber etc etc.

i prefer to have mail, im, irc, ftp and websurfing seperate from another. those monolitic applications like opera or the mozilla suite never seem to be able to get most of the things right a single application in this or that field gets right.

i really really hope lightning (mail+pim) turns out great, i'm looking forward to drop outlook ...

I'm be honest AIM is garbage. I hope they make an extension for all chat clients. My suggestion use Trillian, it not as compact but supports icq, aim, irc, jabber, and a whole bunch of others basically all of the chat clients combined. really for the serious chatter.

Since you're on IRC most of the time, check out bitlbee. I'm able to talk to my aim people while still on IRC. just a different window/tab/whatever.

Trillian suxx. A heap of problems and no real advantages. Miranda is the best solution ever existed.

The new public AIM Beta, Triton, is very nice. And I don't even think they added the ads yet...

The only thing is that so far it can't just sit in the notification area; it has to be a taskbar button all the time. Hopefully they're working on that, and it looks like the next version of AIM will actually be decent, unless they clutter it with ads again.

alanjstr: I got a big gray block too. It was because I put the wrong password in, and there's not any error messages yet. :P

aimfire existed undeveloped on mozdev for a while under the name "aimfox;" I'm not sure why it changed. Please realize that this is a very early beta version (0.1!), but it's by the same author as fireFTP; if it comes out to be even close to how good fireFTP is, this will be a very attractive Firefox extension. (It's one of AOL/Netscape's standard features, but they somehow make it bloated...)