Pidgin is among the most popular chat clients among others in Gnu/Linux. It is multiplatform and you can use Pidgin with different protocols like yahoo, gtalk, irc and the list goes on.

Like most other Open Source products, what makes pidgin a real deal is the number of third party plugins it have. But the sheer number of plugins may overwhelm you. We have compiled a list of 10 really interesting and useful plugins for Pidgin. Take a look.

  Categories

 Security And Pricacy:

• Off-the-Record Messaging - Encrypts conversations and provides security even when keys are compromise.
  

• Pidgin-Encryption - Encrypts coversations using stored RSA keys.

• Bot Sentry - Preventing spam bots.

  Notifications:

• Guifications - Provides popup notifications.               

• Audible Alerts - Audible notification of a received IM by reading the buddy's screen name.
  

• Music Tracker - Displays the music track currently playing in the status message. Supports a wide range of
                               audio players, usually comes along with the default Pidgin installation in Ubuntu.

• Last.fm Plugin - Shows information from your Last.FM / Audioscrobbler profile in your status message.

• Twitter in your Profile -  Insert your Twitter history into your profile. It gets updated periodically.

 Miscellaneous

• Birthday Reminder  - Reminds you of your buddies birthdays.

• Extended Preferences - Provides some often-requested preferences
  

• Purple Plugin Pack - Provides over 50 various plugins

Hope the list have helped you in finding out  the needle from the haystack :-). Any queries in regard to the post is welcome.