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DESCRIPTION
Mercury Messenger can do the same things as your normal messenger:
  • Talk to friends
  • Change your nickname and status
  • Add a display picture (also known as an avatar)
But Mercury Messenger has some extra functions that your normal messenger doesn't have, for example:
  • Be online with several MSN adresses at the same time.
  • Login with your status on 'Invisible' or any other status you want.
  • Have a different MSN name in every conversation
  • Use and create your own plugins
  • Default plugin added: a FileServer for MSN using IRC like commands
  • See when someone starts a conversation with you (before he says something)
  • See when someone closes the chat conversation window.
  • See who added you into a conversation with multiple people
  • See when someone deletes you from their contactlist.
  • See the difference between MSN and Mercury Messenger users
  • See your fake and fakes friends (Explained in FAQ)
  • MSG+ colors
  • and more...
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.9.4:

Since 2009-07-21 there is a problem about a minute after signing in, Mercury sends something to the MSN server which the MSN server rejects. It looks like the MSN server no longer accepts the message in upper case, when it is send in lower case the MSN server doesn't disconnect Mercury. This is fixed in Mercury 1.9.5

REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.

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Developer:Danny
Downloads:152,625
  - Version d/l:10,568
Internet:Chat
License:Free
Date:22 Aug 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Aug 5 2009
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KAI  great program! i like it very much! and its extraordinary options are marvelous! :)

(showing the relationships between you and your (former -> 'faked friends') contacts. so you can get an overview about who has deleted you from his list ('fake friends') and so on...  
(Version 1.9.4)

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Jul 25 2009

KAPPE  mercury cant keep the connection up, it automatically logs out and relog in. this is happening since 2 weeks.  
(Version 1.9.4)

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Jul 30 2009

HERBALEX  The same here.

I am no working with Microsoft Messenger.

men what annouing.  
(Version 1.9.4)

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Mar 18 2009

MSM21  My msn 9 buddies cant see me through my isight cam. I have macbook and this cam only works if i use Mercury but since this new msn came up my friends cant see me and i cant see them... what can i do to solve this? any ideas??

tia  
(Version 1.9.4)

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Dec 26 2008

LARSEN2K4  God bless you guys for this update :D ;)

My "MSN 9.0 buddies" have already been screaming, that they couldn't see my emoticons etc. anymore... keep on rocking =)  
(Version 1.9.4)

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Dec 26 2008
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BOUSOZOKU  This seems to be the only client that supports legacy MSN Messenger video as well as Asian languages. Adium doesn't support video and aMSN didn't support Asian languages the last time I tried it. Microsoft Messenger will be supporting video the next time round, as they're waiting for the Windows version to catch up.

This is a good client. It works reasonably well at all times. CPU usage seems reasonable finally and it's able to be themed so it can take on other look-and-feel skins, including the Mac OS X look-and-feel.

I've used it to connect to a number of MSN Messenger/Live Messenger clients and it always seems to do okay but it's not spectacular. Version 2.0 is being developed at the current time.  
(Version 1.9.4)

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Nov 2 2007
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CASTLE ROSE  Wow, 1.9 is Great. Gone are the bugs from 1.8 and the interrupted video chats. The new logo is very nice. I wish It had it as the new logo showing in the opening progress bar too. I really don't know what the others are talking about regarding CPU use. I have it open on a G4 1.5Ghz. Powerbook. My activity is 4.5% to 8.3% and only ~10.3% with the Emoticons panel open. I'm moving back to Mercury from aMSN. At least untill Adium gets video. Thanks, guys for a great product.   
(Version 1.9)

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Oct 27 2007

S P L A T !  GGRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

TOO MUCH CPU LOAD !!

its a nice MSN option.... but un-usable

soo bad....  
(Version 1.9)

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May 17 2007

PENDEZ  I don't like this app for 2 main reasons:

1. how much RAM does this thing need? I mean seriously?

2. Half of my contacts list doesn't appear anyway so as a messenger app its pretty useless.

binned it and switched to Adium. much better, much faster  
(Version 1.8)

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Oct 27 2007

DAI YI  Naturally, Adium looks much better and allows logins from different accounts and chat services. It's very impressive but lacks the one thing Mercury can offer: video chat capabilities.   
(Version 1.9)

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Apr 13 2007
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MARK EVERITT  I really want to like Mercury. I've been using it for quite a while, and I've stuck to it because it offers so many features that I use.

However, it has some problems. It's a bit buggy for a start. It'll randomly crash from time to time, or hang for a while. The worst thing by far is the amount of RAM this uses. Activity Monitor usually reports that Mercury is hogging ~ 150MB of RAM, which puts it at the top of the list most of the time. I only have 1GB of RAM, and giving over this much memory is no longer an option.

I'm afraid that unless this can be optimised somehow to use much less memory, I'll have to bin it for good.  
(Version 1.8)

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Apr 13 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  If you go to the forum at the developer's website, there are beta builds available there in the forum, the latest one appears to be 1.9rc3.  
(Version 1.8)

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Apr 13 2007

MACUPDATE ADMIN  http://17juju17.free.fr/Mercury_1_9_RC3.dmg.zip  
(Version 1.8)

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Apr 28 2007

MARK EVERITT  Cheers, I'll check it out.  
(Version 1.8)

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Mar 16 2007

MOGWAI1983  What on earth are the developers thinking? Have they been smoking too much special stuff?

This application has been next to useless from the very outset. Now this is worse than useless, impressivey useless... impressive even for the dotless morons who wrote it.

You cannot select text fields to even enter your msn email address yet alone when you eventually get around this ridiculous flaw, it is slow, buggier than a rainforest on a hot summers day, seems to be eating an impossible amount of RAM and almost 100% of my CPU.

Eventually this app becomes so bogged down that the whole machine gives up and hangs on the perpetual beachball, not allowing you to switch apps or force quit. I couldn't even ssh into the machine to kill the process.

Kindly decist from developing the hideous wart of an application any further. It will make everyones days go that much better.  
(Version 1.8)

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