End of an Era
We are saddened to announce that there will be no future versions of Fire. There are several reasons for this end, but the most notable is the loss of developers. Fire's development had dwindled to few developers who do not wish to continue the project alone. In addition, another major contributing factor is the fact that all but one of Fire's IM libraries is no longer in active development.
The good news is that two of Fire's developers have joined the Adium team and have written a transition path. Adium 1.0, upon first launch, will import your Fire accounts, away messages, groups, buddies, and logs into Adium. For future updates and IM needs, we suggest that you look at Adium.
The latest released version of Fire will continue to be available below:
Fire is a free Instant Messaging client for Mac OS X. It supports the seven most popular Instant Messaging services:
- AIM®
- ICQ®
- irc
- Jabber® (including Google® Talk and Apple® iChat Server)
- MSN®
- Yahoo! Messenger®
- Apple Bonjour® (aka Rendezvous)
Now a Universal Binary supporting both Intel and PowerPC Macs.
Includes Full Support of every MacOS release from 10.1 through Tiger.
Get the latest release here
Latest Developer Blog Entries
Sat, 24 Feb 2007The end of our development
We are announcing that Fire will see no more releases. There is an announcement on the Front Page which explains our reasons. As some of you know, there is a beta version of 2.0 floating around, however we feel that this version is just not ready for release in any form, so it will remain [...] More
Mon, 25 Sep 2006Images Lost and Near Release
Since the site went down, the images were lost in posts here. Sorry for the inconvienence. We are nearing the release of the next version of Fire. Currently the More
Tue, 20 Jun 2006Better Fire History available
Thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine (www.archive.org) We now have a complete release history for Fire, dating back to it’s very first public release on April 1, 1999. Our baby is 7 years old already! More
Fri, 28 Apr 2006More Person Item
A lot of the previous post has now been implemented in SVN (not in a snapshot build yet due to allowing some time for additional testing). There is an “importer” which creates Person Items. Here is how it creates them: It will look at all buddies with the same display name (alias), and look [...] More
Thu, 30 Mar 2006Person Item
Well, 2.0 is starting to mature… Soon it will be time for release. The only big ticket item remaining is PersonItem. Basically, it is a stronger clustering method with Address Book sync. Some of the code already exists, and Alan and I are busy at work getting the rest done. Once this [...] More
More Entries...
A full archive of blog entries is available on the Fire Development Blog
News, News, News
15 February 2006Fire 1.5.6 Released
The Fire Development team is happy to announce the release of Fire 1.5.6. This universal binary works on both PowerPC and Intel Macintosh computers running Mac OS 10.2.8 or higher.
This release focuses on fixes in the following areas:
- Jabber connection problems
- Crash when Fire is speaking a message
- Dragging Tabs & Groups works correctly
- Automatic Translation speedup
- Buddy Text Encodings are saved for irc and ICQ conversations
- Spotlight can now search past conversations (10.4 only)
This release can be downloaded by visiting:
http://www.fireim.org/download
Happy Chatting!
- The Fire Development Team
Downloads:
For Mac OS X 10.1 (Version 1.0.4)
For Mac OS X 10.2.8 and later (Version 1.5.6)
Fire 1.5.5 Released
Announcing version 1.5.5 of Fire, the multi-protocol IM application for Mac OS X.
The main feature in this release is the addition of a Universal binary which supports the new Intel based Macintosh computers announced today.
A few critical bugs in AIM, MSN, and TextToSpeech were also fixed in this release.
This release works on Mac OS versions 10.2.8 and above.
- Happy Chatting
The Fire Team
Downloads:
For Mac OS X 10.1 (Version 1.0.4)
For Mac OS X 10.2.8 and later (Version 1.5.5)
Fire 1.5.4 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Fire 1.5.4. This release includes the following main items:
- Improved support for Google Talk
- Fixes for Hang in Bonjour chat
- Fixes for MSN crashes
Downloads:
For Mac OS X 10.1 (Version 1.0.4)
For Mac OS X 10.2.8 and later (Version 1.5.4)
Fire already works with Google Messaging
Sadly, Google didn't feel like including the premier OS X chat client in their list of third party clients. If you wish to chat on Google's IM client within Fire:
- add a new Jabber account
- set the username to your gmail account (xxx@gmail.com or xxx@googlemail.com. Be sure to use the right one, there is a difference)
- set the server to talk.google.com
- turn on the "Use SSL" checkbox
That is all you need. We are aware of some issues with adding users and authorization. We are working to resolve these as quickly as possible
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