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Proteus 4.2.2

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Proteus is a chat client that allows you to connect that chat with several of the major chat networks, including ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Yahoo Japan, Rendezvous, and Jabber.

Proteus is currently localized in English, French, German and Traditional Chinese, with more coming.

What's New

Proteus 4.2.2:

GUI update as well as a general pruning of the application.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.

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Proteus User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 4.x:

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+11

Fuhayer reviewed on 12 Aug 2011

MSN does not connect as usual as before. they should remove MSN support!

[Version 4.2.2]

UlisesMontreal reviewed on 07 Feb 2011

Does this thing work on Snow Leopard?? It just doesn't wanna work on my computer.

[Version 4.2.1]

-15

ClarusAD reviewed on 16 Mar 2009

The best IM i've never used !
Today, i'm still using it ; with its add-on Proteus menu (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15418/proteusmenu), the Mac OS integration is great !

[Version 4.2.1]

-2

+10

dnem41 commented on 06 Jul 2008

hey does this have screen sharing capabilities? if that's not enough, can i screen share with Windows users?

[Version 4.2]

1 Reply

-1

+120

Robby.is.on replied on 11 Oct 2008

No voice, no video etc.

ssnickerer commented on 02 Jan 2008

What are the advantages of Proteus over Adium?

[Version 4.16]

2 Replies

+120

Robby.is.on replied on 11 Oct 2008

Some prefer its looks (not me), its insides are outdated.

-15

ClarusAD commented on 17 Jan 2009

Proteus (like iChat) can run in background (with a daemon). Not Adium !

+55

::mile:: commented on 01 Jan 2008

Wow, Proteus is back from the dead...?! How did that happen...?!? Well, I'll just give it a try then, let's see what's new...and what's in store for the future maybe...?! :)

[Version 4.16]

md828 commented on 07 Feb 2007

Great app, and I've paid for this when it was shareware but it seems it has been abandoned.

I hope it's retaken soon, it hasn't received any major updates in a long time. Either that or I can see its death already coming... :-/

[Version 4.15b]

+228

St00pid-M0nk3y commented on 04 Sep 2006

If you add support for connecting to Google's Gmail Chat, I'll give it a chance.

[Version 4.15b]

2 Replies

+57

Matthew Green replied on 05 Sep 2006

i've had no problems using google chat, set it up as a jabber account

+228

St00pid-M0nk3y replied on 05 Sep 2006

How do I do that? I can't get it to connect. I don't what to do in the settings. :(

Tuner Equalizer commented on 27 Aug 2006

The registration software has been removed. So, we won't be bugged anymore about payment. Free as in beer.

[Version 4.14b1]

Proteus Developer (developer) commented on 22 Aug 2006

Please visit our new site: www.proteusx.org
The forums and blog are now up, with the new site coming soon. Keep your ears to the ground for upcoming releases.

[Version 4.13b1]

1 Reply

Alkhemist replied on 07 Nov 2006

Uh...where is it?

braindancer had trouble on 07 Aug 2009

I'm using Proteus on Leopard, and I don't see message history being populated. I check history of the contacts I talked to yesterday, and it's blank. The "enable history on this account" is turned on both on my ICQ account and my jabber account. What am I missing?

[Version 4.2.1]

globetrotterdk had trouble on 12 Apr 2008

Any idea how to make Proteus my default IM? Adium keeps popping up when I click a Twitter chat URL. I am using OS X Tiger.

[Version 4.16]

1 Reply

GForce commented on 28 Oct 2008

The default messenger is set in the iChat Preferences under general.

Stoerk had trouble on 11 Feb 2005

I liked this programm (earlier version) very much until i ran into problems with conference chats. I wasn't able to establish conversations with two or more people. Does anyone have a hint to solve this?

By the way: I experienced the same kind of problem with Fire and Adium as well.

[Version 4.10]

1 Reply

Anonymous commented on 13 Mar 2005

Yea, I had this same problem , i fixed it with free MSN mess...:(
Adium was great, hope this one is better...

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Downloads:107,004

Version Downloads:1,300

Type:Internet : Chat

License:Free

Date:25 Jul 2011

Platform:PPC / Intel

Price:Free

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