General Preferences

You can show the accounts window on startup if you use it frequently.

Want to let users know you're not at your computer? Send a message when you're idle. This message is selected in the Away Messages window.

If you like waxing nostalgic, reading back over messages from that special someone, or need notes on past conversations to keep tabs on what's going on, you can log all messages to a file for each buddy. This setting can be overridden on a per-buddy basis.

You can record buddy sign on/off times in Fire's Console. Certain automatic responses can be routed to the Console as well. (We're working on which messages should follow this setting; remember you can block system messages just like a normal user.)

Fire can automatically reconnect services after waking from sleep or after the server closes. Under normal operation, these work as they should, but can cause infinite connection loops sometimes. Fire will wait 5 seconds when disconnected before trying to reconnect; this should help alleviate the infinite connect loop situations.