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Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Com-SL » Llega mensajería instantánea a Thunderbird 13 y el Speed Dial a Firefox 13

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:41:44 +0000

[...] última versión de Thunderbird 13 (canal Nightly) ha introducido una nueva característica, la mensajería instantánea. La nueva función es capaz de conectarse al chat de Facebook, chat de [...]

Comment on 2012-05-20 Thunderbird comm-central builds by Karsten Loepelmann

Karsten Loepelmann — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:06:41 +0000

Although it's great to see that these bugs have been fixed, I'm disappointed that a very "popular" one, 487386 has not been addressed. This bug was first reported over 3 years ago. Its importance is classed as major (49 votes), and has been duplicated 22 times. Yet so far it has been ignored, despite the fact that it breaks some basic functionality, and leads to a poor user experience. Judging from the comments scattered across the web, this one is annoying a lot of people.

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Florian Quèze

Florian Quèze — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:21:28 +0000

@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

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Thunderbird 11 ย้ายแท็บไปอยู่ด้านบน, เตรียมเพิ่ม Instant Messenger | Magento-Thailand.co

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:06:59 +0000

[...] Instant Messenger เข้ามาใน Thunderbird รุ่นทดสอบ (หน้าตา) ซึ่งคาดว่าจะได้ใช้จริงใน Thunderbird [...]

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by betazed

betazed — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:31:53 +0000

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?

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Thunderbird 11 arrives with tabs on top, IM coming in future version « «

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:14:39 +0000

[...] other communication collection into a e-mail client. Mozilla has already started prototyping a new built-in present messaging system for Thunderbird, that is accessible for contrast in a latest nightly [...]

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Advanced Web Service » Thunderbird 11 arrives with tabs on top, IM coming in future version

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:36:14 +0000

[...] other communication tools into the e-mail client. Mozilla has already started prototyping a new built-in instant messaging system for Thunderbird, which is available for testing in the latest nightly [...]

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Florian Quèze

Florian Quèze — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:53:53 +0000

@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.

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Gary Kwong

Gary Kwong — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:58:37 +0000

@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

Comment on Instant messaging in Thunderbird just got landed, should appear in tomorrow’s nightlies by Caspy7

Caspy7 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:18:29 +0000

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.