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On Windows, I’ve been a user of Trillian Pro for probably about 2 years. The latest version, 3.0, is fantastic, but unfortunately there is no version for OS X.

I first tried Adium, which is cute but just didn’t cut it for me. The menu extra icon was totally useless in that it didn’t let you change your status – only connect/disconnect from the various services. Also, I did not like that I could not view my contacts that were not online (on ICQ and I think Yahoo, you can send IMs to these people and they’ll get them when they connect).

I next tried Proteus. I found this to be closer to Trillian that Adium was, but I could not find a way to display the offline contacts in a separate group, so they were constantly in the way. Also, the bubble chat window was very annoying, altough I think this could be changed.

So now I’m using Fire, which is clearly the best of the bunch so far, even though it crashed the first time I started it.

None of these hold a candle to Trillian though.