Facebook Chat
1. Description
| Homepage: | http://www.facebook.com |
| Type: | Proprietary, [XMPP-based] |
| Identity: | yourusername@chat.facebook.com |
| Interoperability: | None. |
| Popularity: |
Facebook is a social networking website. It offers an in-browser "Facebook Chat" service.
Old Facebook chat implementation
Previous to 10 February 2010, one needed to use the "pidgin-facebookchat" plugin that comes with Adium. It was added in Adium 1.3, Adium 1.3.3 and later versions featured a greatly improved Facebook implementation.
New Facebook chat implementation (XMPP-based)
As of 10 February 2010, it is possible to use Facebook Chat over XMPP/Jabber. Currently, avatars and full names are supported, but status messages are not.
To use XMPP instead of the normal Facebook plugin, do the following:
- Add a Jabber account instead of a Facebook account.
- Type in your Facebook username, followed by @chat.facebook.com, for examples "JoeBob@chat.facebook.com". You'll need to have activated your username in the account preferences of your Facebook account, using the website.
- Set the connection server to "chat.facebook.com", on the options pane.
- You are ready to go! Connect! Remember to turn of your old Facebook account, or remove it.
In future version of Adium, this new method of connecting will be made more easy.
2. History
3. Censorship (?)
4. Known Issues
Notable missing features (in comparison to original or other clients)
Defects, broken features