[Tex/LaTex] How to set short footnotes next to each other (two-column style)

Question

When having a comparatively large number of footnotes that are each very short (URLs say), it sometimes looks weird to have them stack up to a high footnote tower, especially in a minipage or some similarly confined space.

\documentclass[a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[hidelinks=true]{hyperref}
\newcommand{\footurl}[1]{\footnote{\url{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
As Linux Jabber clients there are for example Pidgin\footurl{http://www.pidgin.im/}, Kopete\footurl{http://kopete.kde.org/}, Gajim\footurl{http://gajim.org/} and Psi\footurl{http://psi-im.org/}.
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

Intuitively, I'd like to see these footnotes next to each other, like so:

Is there any package that does this for me? Or any other way?

If at all possible I'd like not to go all two-columned with all my footnotes.

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Edit

Just for reference, I'll show the two closest solutions so far. The first is the eledmac solution I linked to myself which can be used locally when not changing the \footnote command. It's not compatible with fnpct however. It can be made to work with fnpct with the excellent extension capabilities of this package, so the following image uses \AdaptNoteNoMult{\footnoteA}.

The second is the solution suggested by jon which uses bigfoot and the para option. It is compatible with fnpct which I used in the following example but it inherits manyfoot's "feature" of escaping minipages so the length of the following example is still a huge understatement. It's also not properly aligned so it doesn't look satisfactory on its own.

Answer 1

There is a package dblfnote which can do it for you. Because it is a little bit old there can be other problems occur (for your MWE there will come up an warning with option hidelinks of package hyperref. I commented the minipage in your MWE to get the wanted result.

New MWE:

\documentclass[a5paper]{article}

\usepackage{dblfnote}  % Two footnotes in one line      % <========== new
\DFNalwaysdouble       % sets footnote always double    % <========== new

\usepackage[hidelinks=true]{hyperref}

\newcommand{\footurl}[1]{\footnote{\url{#1}}}
\begin{document}
%\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}                            % <========== 
As Linux Jabber clients there are for example 
Pidgin\footurl{http://www.pidgin.im/}, 
Kopete\footurl{http://kopete.kde.org/}, Gajim\footurl{http://gajim.org/} 
and Psi\footurl{http://psi-im.org/}. 
%\end{minipage}                                          % <========== 
\end{document} 

and the result is: