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Purpose

XUL MSN Messenger is a cross-platform alternative to MSN Messenger. It aims to be a light and cross-platform MSN client with useful but not too many features.

Status

With the release of version 0.8, support for conversations with multiple contacts has improved, and file transfer has been implemented. There is much better protection against server bugs as well.

As always, view the change log for more details. What's especially nice is that the conversation window won't automatically scroll when new messages are arrived when you are reading scrollback.

Compatibility

XUL MSN Messenger should work on Mozilla 1.7.x, SeaMonkey 1.x, and Firefox 1.0+. Note that Mozila 1.7.x and Firefox 1.0 only support sliding notification windows on Windows. Finally, version 0.8 drops support for Mozilla 1.4-1.6 and Firefox 0.8-0.9. Some parts of the code now use features that were introduced in Gecko 1.7.

Languages

The en-US, fr-FR and nl-NL locales are supported.

Note: they actually were available in 0.7.x, but the install script didn't install them because it didn't know about their existance. Oops!

Known issues

The file transfer that has been implemented is from the days of MSN Messenger 5, when not everyone was behind a router yet, though it does account for one person being behind one.

Since it's not possible to reliably detect if your client is behind a router, there is a checkbox in the preferences to indicate this. This setting only has an effect if you are sending a file. In the negotiation, your client will tell the other that it has trouble accepting incoming connections, so the result will be that you will be connecting to the other to establish a connection. Obviously, this won't work if the other client is in the same situation.

When receiving a file, it depends on the other client if you will be connecting to it or it to your client. Most often, the other client will be indicating that it is behind a router, and will be trying to connect to you.

The easiest way to deal with the problem of being behind a router is to set it to allow and forward incoming TCP connections on port 6891 to you.

User Notes: [?]

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[1] Submitted by: toe_head2001 on Monday 28th May 2007 at 20:45 -0700

How about taking over the AIMfire project as well

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070527 Minefield/3.0a5pre
[3] Submitted by: HSOC on Tuesday 5th June 2007 at 05:43 -0700

sound excellent - I wish there was a way to assist. There is plenty of good stuff that can be done here.
You should share the source maybe?
-thx

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[4] Submitted by: BenoitRen on Wednesday 6th June 2007 at 13:08 -0700

The AIMfire project looks interesting, but as I have no immediate need for it, and no extra time, I won't be taking it over now. Maybe sometime in the summer vacation.

HSOC, this is an open-source project. :) All the code is inside the XPI's JAR file. They're just renamed ZIP files, after all.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 SeaMonkey/1.1.2
[5] Submitted by: HSOC on Friday 8th June 2007 at 03:15 -0700

ok cool :-) basicaly I would like to improve off-line msging (which is the most important for now) and maybe file-transfering :)

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[7] Submitted by: Joey on Saturday 7th July 2007 at 09:05 -0700

Wow great that this project has been revived!
I have tried the extention in mozilla, and although it is missing featers I like it already!
If only FireFox support could be added, than it would be interesting for me to be a contributor to this project.

Keep up the good work!
Greetings, Joey

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12
[8] Submitted by: armandjo on Tuesday 17th July 2007 at 01:54 -0700

this application is realy cool.

I was wondering if I had any chance to turned it into a webmessenger : no plug-in installation.

thx

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; fr; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
[9] Submitted by: worms on Saturday 8th September 2007 at 12:12 -0700

Very nice 0.7 version... thanks!
Would it be possible to add an "always on top" feature? If not, no problem! (and a "minimize to tray" one, maybe...)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0
[10] Submitted by: Emilie on Saturday 20th October 2007 at 11:16 -0700

Error: missing ] after element list
Source File: chrome://msnmsgr/content/md5.js
Line: 11, Column: 64
Source Code:
return [("0" + md5bytes.charCodeAt(i).toString(16)).slice(-2) for(i in md5bytes)].join("");

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070301 SeaMonkey/1.0.8
[11] Submitted by: Sammy on Tuesday 4th December 2007 at 07:08 -0800

Some day, it would be a wonderful feature to have profile picture avatars, i understand this is a difficult step, but this would make the XUL so much more user friendly, and i would love to be able to display pictures. Love the XUL and will always stick with it

-Sammy

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12
[12] Submitted by: Tina on Thursday 10th January 2008 at 09:33 -0800

I agree with Sammy...the avatar would make it more friendly to the average user, like 0.7, nice nice work.
Thanks

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070508 Firefox/1.5.0.12
[13] Submitted by: oabu on Thursday 21st February 2008 at 14:26 -0800

good

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[14] Submitted by: kensubz on Wednesday 27th February 2008 at 08:16 -0800

Another feature worth adding would support for connecting to the MSN servers via HTTP, for those behind restrictive firewalls.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

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