If you go to the fire developers blog at http://blog.fireim.org/2006/09/25/images-lost-and-near-release/ you will find this note:

I was hoping to make the announcement sooner, but fire is effectively dead, for many reasons I will not go into here. We delayed the announcement for the release of version 1.0 of Adium because it includes a nice transition path from Fire to Adium. By not announcing until this transition path was in place, we could save the users a lot of grief. As such, the formal announcement will still wait.

Fire’s future is now mostly a design reference and some code for Adium’s future. BTW, two of the Fire developers (including myself) are officially members of the Adium team.”

I most likely would have missed it - except I was hunting down a current beta copy for 2.0_

Is this the case ? Is this effectively what is happening ?

If so - it sucks!! I’ve always viewed Adium as a lesser App than Fire_ I’vve had more stability issues with Adium as well_

I suppose I will end up doing something similar as I did when Microsoft ended production of IE for Mac and use Fire until it becomes greatly incompatible anymore before I switch to something else_