Just a week after
Digsby widened its private beta by
giving away 5,000 invites to Download Squad readers, the development team has already issued 4 new builds of the chat, email, and social networking client. Probably the most significant new feature is support for proxy settings to help users get around corporate firewalls.
There are a ton of other bug fixes and minor new features as well, including:
- A fix for "connection lost" issue when logging in
- A fix for MSN Messenger IMs not being sent
- A fix for Digsby getting stuck while loading skins during the login
- A fix for freezes while logging into Yahoo! Messenger
- Ctrl + Backapsace now deletes one word at a time in the input box
If you already have a Digsby account, you can either download the latest client from the Digsby home page or just fire up Digsby on your PC if it's already installed. The client will download all the updates automatically. While the lack of proxy support was one of the main complaints we heard from users last week, there's one other issue we'd love to see Digsby work on: The program's large memory footprint. Digsby can easily use 70MB or more at launch. Considering how many functions the service has, that might not seem like a lot, but similar applications like Pidgin use just a small fraction of the RAM that Digsby does.
Tags: chat, digsby, e-mail, IM, memory, notifier, proxy, RAM
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Subscribe to commentsPaulFeb 15th 2008 1:10PM
What about the feature to block someone? That's what I'm missing.
I'm hoping they'll also add in audio and video capabilities... I haven't been a Pidgin user because it looks really sort of outdated in all the screenshots... Is that true?
Steve ShapiroFeb 18th 2008 10:00PM
You can block someone in the privacy section of the preferences. We removed it from buddy right click menus temporarily because we had bugs in the decision of when to show "block" and when to show "unblock" when the buddy is on the buddy list of more than one account.
airwindsFeb 19th 2008 6:25PM
It would be great if Digsby could grab my schedule from Google Calender and notify me when an appointment/meeting is nearing.
Also, I am more a Orkut user. Can you also integrate Orkut into Digsby?
Enough of demanding. Now for some praise! DIGSBY is the best thing that has happened since ____ (fill this gap with whatever you feel is the greatest thing that has happened to the internet)