Colloquy versions

Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous.
2.5
Mar 28, 2024
2.4
Mar 27, 2012
Review
2.3
Apr 23, 2010
Editorial review
rating

What's new

v2.4 [Mar 27, 2012]
- Fullscreen support
- SASL Support
- Tab completion for room names
- Badge icon on dock for unread highlights and private messages
- Timestamps display local time on Lion
- Support Growl on 64bit systems and Growl 1.3
- Fixes a crash when closing windows
- Fixes excess flood issues on Freenode
- Handle netsplits better
- Right clicking on chat will act on the room that is clicked on, not the room that is open
- When prompting the user for a NickServ password of a nick other than the preferred nick, identify to the current nickname.
- Remove duplicate "search in google" menu item
- Ability to have a custom download folder instead of using Safari's download folder
- Keep nickname authentication window on top when joining a channel
- Use less memory and CPU
- Colloquy now requires 10.7 and a 64-bit Intel machine
- Python plugins now require Python 2.5 as a minimum, instead of Python 2.3

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