Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow's nightlies

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Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies

Bug 714733 just got landed in comm-central, which adds instant messaging support to Thunderbird. It should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies.

Here’s a screenshot:

Thanks Florian, and please test away!

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Markus | 13-Mar-12 at 2:30 pm | Permalink

Are there plans to finally include Calender as integral part in TB? This would really be useful.
Caspy7 | 13-Mar-12 at 4:18 pm | Permalink

Wait. Will this be in default releases?
I don’t remember hearing of this before. Had it been discussed here?
What is this based on? Does this use libpurple? Borrow heavily from Instantbird? Will this integrate with the rest of TB (contacts, users who are online showing up green in emails)?
What services will be supported?
I don’t use it but I’m sure Facebook would be a big win nowadays.
Gary Kwong | 14-Mar-12 at 3:58 am | Permalink

@Markus: Not sure about that yet, there is a bug filed though.

@Caspy7: See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Thunderbird/Instant_messaging_in_Thunderbird

Trying it out might also answer some of your questions, though be sure to expect bugs
Florian Quèze | 14-Mar-12 at 4:53 am | Permalink

@Caspy7: It doesn’t use libpurple (which is GPL’ed). It does borrow heavily from Instantbird: Instantbird’s back-end has been rewritten in JS during the last few years, and the XMPP and IRC plugins have been replaced recently with MPL’ed JS implementations. For Thunderbird 13 it won’t integrate with the address book or the email headers, but these features are definitely planed for the next releases. Supported services are currently Google Talk, Facebook Chat, IRC and Twitter.
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betazed | 17-Mar-12 at 4:31 pm | Permalink

In regards to the end of Florian Quèze’s comment: I noticed that the services listed (namely Google Talk and Facebook chat) are XMPP. Does that mean that any XMPP server is supported or just those specifically?
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Florian Quèze | 17-Apr-12 at 5:21 am | Permalink

@betazed: Currently only these services, but we are working toward allowing other XMPP servers, the details are discussed in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735215
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