I just tried the new Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin. My experience so far has been flawless. I shut off Pidgin, ran the Windows Installer and started Pidgin back up. Then I created an account in Pidgin’s “manage accounts” area. I didn’t have any trouble at all. So far, it’s worked 100%. I really like how it doesn’t show me my friends’ screennames, but just shows me their full (First, last, sometimes middle) name. It’s extremely clean. Now I don’t need to log in to Facebook to talk with certain friends, and I get to use the Pidgin interface that I love.
Note: My friend’s virusscanner picked up the installer as a virus. I used Symantec, with the latest virus definitions (October 28, 2008 rev 4) to scan the install and it didn’t detect anything wrong.
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