That is fixed, now Pidgin lets you select a special proxy option called 'Tor' instead of 'SOCKS5', and this takes care of the DNS leaks. That said I still doubt he is very fond of Pidgin, none of the ultra l33t hackers seem to be. But it has been steadily improving. Conservatively speaking I guess I would suggest against it, or at least suggest isolating it (I do), but as far as user friendliness goes it really isn't beat by any other IM/chat program IMO. I use too many chat protocols to want to bother with anything else (pidgin supports everything I use), and I don't want to fuck around with doing IRC from a command line like the big boys do (even though I probably should).