Best Safe Messenger?

Should try configuring Trillian sometime.
Nothing to it and it's got a very high ranking.... :)

Well I have been using Trillian Astra with no problems or conflicts.

I prefer to go off personal experience rather than rankings from websites that usually have ulterior motives.

Anyway I guess it’s all down to personal preference. I personally like the clean look of my chosen messenger which I dare not name in fear of another scathing post from Bob despite this being a thread about messengers. There are, of course, other messenger such as those dedicated to a single protocol and then there are other multimessengers such as Yoono which are probably best left unmentioned.

I’m an EX-Yahoo! Messenger User, now, a loyal Trillian fan. Very flexible, “automate-able”, “graphically great” and configurable.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2010/02/trillian_alpha.jpg

Trillian Alpha Brings Its Multi-Protocol IM to Macs

Early reports peg the Mac alpha of Trillian as very rough, and not on the same level as the well-known Windows client. Some preferences are missing,