Facebook Chat in your Firefox sidebar
Posted by Percy Cabello on April 23rd, 2008 • Tags:
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Today Facebook unveiled its new chat service and as you may suspect it is pretty simple to load it in your Firefox sidebar to have it always on hand.

  • In the Bookmarks menu, select Organize Bookmarks…
  • Click on the New Bookmark…
  • Enter a name. Enter http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php for the location and check the Load this bookmark in the sidebar checkbox.

    Facebook chat bookmark

Now you can select the just created bookmark to load Facebook Chat whether you have Facebook open in a tab or not.

Facebook chat bookmark

You can do the same with the web version of Google Talk.

Comments
dlow said on April 24, 2008, 12:14 am:

I tried this out and it took up alot of the screen space to look good, and text doesn’t line break it just goes out of view…probably wont be using it very much.

Ryan Scheel said on April 24, 2008, 2:00 am:

Hmm: Aim, Facebook, Google, MSN, IRC, IMVU, Yahoo Instant Messenger, and countless others…

I think we need to choose a protocol as a standard such as IRC, or create a new standard that can be used for chatting. If we are going to keep a current one, I think that IRC would be best. For a new standard, have it so that people can do IMing through Email or Open ID accounts and general chat through the current IRC system.

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Alan said on April 24, 2008, 2:16 pm:

Ryan – Google Talk’s /is/ an open standard; XMPP/Jabber. :)

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Vegard said on April 25, 2008, 4:13 am:

I hope they will get facebook chat on digsby, that should be the next step for them

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Ben said on April 26, 2008, 11:59 pm:

Note that this tip can be almost exactly replicated with Opera’s “panels” feature.

care said on May 29, 2009, 9:06 pm:

use pidgin, you can use all of the chat services all at once in one graphic interface.

http://www.pidgin.im/

Nhu Dinh Hiep said on July 16, 2009, 12:46 am:

I prefer to load facebook chat in the wide window (by unticking ‘Load this bookmark in the sidebar’) rather than in the sidebar.

Muriel said on July 20, 2009, 4:31 pm:

Doesn’t work if you have Foxmarks (Xmarks) add on. I’ll just wait till Trillian can do it.

gannggstaz said on July 24, 2010, 5:53 pm:

Just use aim express and link it to your facebook. It’s more space efficient and can also link to your aim account. Just follow these directions and substitute this url for facebooks:
http://o.aolcdn.com/aim/gromit/aim_express/gm/100519.1.4649.en-us/WidgetMain.html