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Pidgin purple-facebook based account opens up many chatboxes automatically
I installed the pidgin purple-facebook plugin. Whenever I create an account using this plugin, after pidgin logs into the facebook account, automatically my last 50 or so facebook chats open up in the ...
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Just a little confusion about Facebook Chat in Thunderbird
Facebook deprecated their XMPP Chat API for whatever evil business reasons they had. As their documentation and various blog posts or even StackExchange questions say, accessing Facebook Chat in that ...
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Is there a way to see my messages sent by other clients in Pidgin?
When I have multiple Facebook Chat or Google Hangouts official clients connected to the same account, all messages that I type in one client appear on the other.
But if one of this clients is Pidgin, ...
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Receiving pictures directly in Pidgin over Facebook
I am using Pidgin for the Facebook chat. Every time someone sends a picture or a file in Facebook, I just receive an annoying link in Pidgin. Is there any plugin to display the picture in Pidgin or ...
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Can I get Pidgin to show idle Facebook mobile users?
Following Facebook's closure of their desktop IM application, I've reluctantly moved to using Pidgin.
However it reports all my friends who are idle on mobile devices as "offline" which isn't very ...
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How to connect with Pidgin to Facebook-chat and Google Talk when XMPP port 5222 is blocked?
I have not been able to google this straightforwardly, so here it goes for others.
Many networks have firewalls that block all but the basic ports. I am on one of them but I still want to acces gtalk ...
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Pidgin connects to Facebook chat but not to GTalk wiht Tor. How can that be?
I am using Pidgin on Ubuntu 12.04. The university network blocks (I think) port 5222 for XMMP connections. I thought about using Tor to circumvent that. I installed Tor and configured pidgin to use it....
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Why does Facebook Chat through XMPP protocol on Pidgin Portable not authorize? [closed]
I heard you can use facebook chat on desktops now. Thats awsome! What i didn't hear is that it is a pain in the butt! Not awsome!
I've followed six nearly identical sets of instructions from six ...
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Pidgin and Facebook two-factor authentication
Since I enabled two-factor authentication on Facebook:
Login Approvals
When an unrecognized computer or device tries to access my account:
Require me to enter a security code sent to my phone
pidgin-...
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