I switched from Adium to Messages because I haven't found a way to turn off annoying dock animation of Adium when Internet is offline or when jabber server is down.

Later I found that Messages' proprietary protocol that synchronizes chats on Mac and iPhone is very convenient, and most of my contacts have iPhones or Macs. So today I almost don't use jabber. Sad but true.

>I haven't found a way to turn off annoying dock animation of Adium

Yeah, my one peeve with Adium. I ended up going into the application package and replacing all the PNGs that make up the animation with the first one. Problem solved.

I love it for iMessages. The ability to read, and reply to all my iMessages from OSX is brilliant.

It's Jabber support is horrendous though. I've been getting messages to it on time, not at all, or delayed. Depending on its mood.