Facebook Chat Firefox Plugin
Facebook finally released their chat functionality to all their users today. It’s fantastic! I quickly came to the conclusion that it did have one major flaw: you have to be on the Facebook page to see any incoming messages. So to solve this, I quickly knocked up a Firefox add-on to alert you if you have any new chat messages. You can download it here.
It uses the built-in Firefox alert system, so you’ll need Firefox 3 on OS X (for Growl) and 2 for other OSs. At the moment you also have to leave the Facebook page open, if I have time later, I’ll deal with this so that you can close the Facebook page.
Works for me! That’s brilliant, thanks
it’s great, but please do the fix so i don’t have to keep firefox open!
Geoff, I just wanted to let you know your add-on is marked as incompatible with the just-released Firefox 3 rc 1 although there seem not to be any significant changes in it.
@eric: Don’t worry. Facebook have announced that they will be releasing a Jabber version.
@Valery: Thanks for that, I’ll update it soon!