Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as:
contact message history,
a powerful skinning language,
tabbed messaging,
global status changes (set all networks away at once),
Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration),
contact alerts,
an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client,
docking,
hundreds of emoticons,
emotisounds,
shell extensions for file transfers, and
systray notifications.