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Add to SafariWhen comparing Miranda vs Adium, the Slant community recommends Adium for most people. In the question“What are the best unified messenger apps?” Adium is ranked 3rd while Miranda is ranked 8th.
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Pros
Pro Requires no installation and is very lightweight
Very light on system resources and extremely fast, Miranda IM requires no installation and can be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive.
Pro Insanely customisable
You can see all the plugins available for Miranda here.
Pro Easy-to-use interface
Pro OTR encryption
Pro Open source
Pro Supports file transfers
Cons
Con Outdated XMPP Support
Missing OMEMO, Carbon Copy, HTTP-Upload ...
Con Does not support BOSH
Con OMEMO supported
Con Appears to be abandoned
Not Gatekeeper-compatible, SSL cert expired, social media presence is ancient.
Con Lack of OMEMO encryption
the de facto standard for Jabber Texting [xmpp]
Con Release version has old OTR
The current release, version 1.5.10.4 only does OTR version 2, and version 3 has been out for a long time.
Con Lack of multi-resource message capability
No carbon copy, for example.
Con No antispam (built-in or by plugin)
It has no challenge-like antispam (such as seen on github.com/jesobreira/box-sentry plugin for pidgin).
