A portable application can be run from a removable drive (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc) on any Windows computer without installation.
You will carry the program with settings on removable drive and don't modify settings on host computer.
On Vista and above turn off User Account Control (UAC) or run launcher as admin.

01 January 2023


Free chat client without installation.
Download Portable Pidgin (18 MB)
Included GTK 2.16.6.3

Extract and run PidginPortable.
Can be anonymized by Tor Portable.
Settings of installed Pidgin should be preserved.

9 commentaires:

Stijn said...

I can't use my add Plugins. when i unzip in PidginPortable\Data\.purple\plugins & restart nothing happends. On the website they advise for %APPDATA%\.purple\plugins.

So i can't use plugin on the portable version?

Bernat said...

The folder you used is good.
I think your plugin is not recognized by the latest version of Pidgin.

I tried to move the included plugins from PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\plugins to PidginPortable\Data\.purple\plugins and they are recognized.

mediocrenoob said...

Fresh download and the installer isn't in English
https://i.imgur.com/kCvTqMO.png

Bernat said...

Fixed.

Maximus said...

Well the versión of GTK 2.16.6.3, it´s not working with new version of Pidgin 2.14.2 (Almost in windows 7). The solution was to change to a newer version that I found (gtk + -bundle_3.6.4-20130513) and voila, it's working again. Greetings !!

veska said...

pidgin-2.14.7 portable how to change directory of .purple?
standart directory is C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\.purple
but for old version of pidgin it can be \PidginPortable\Data\settings\.purple

how to change it?

Bernat said...

With the switch: -c
For instance in the portable the command line is:
"D:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\pidgin.exe" -c "D:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\Data\.purple"

veska said...

With the switch: -c
For instance in the portable the command line is:
"D:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\App\Pidgin\pidgin.exe" -c "D:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\Data\.purple"
it working only once . every time I must use command line for this! how to change for working constantly

Bernat said...

Write your command line in a shortcut.

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