How to integrate Facebook Chat to your Firefox Sidebar

by Sameer Joad

Do you want to use facebook chat, without having to stay on facebook all the time?

Not all of us likes the small puny facebook chat bar, or worse off not all of us are able to stay on facebook site all the time. This maybe because your parents are watching you, or maybe your at school. Whatever the case it is, we can’t always have MSN on each computer and at the same time, not all of  your friends will be using Instant messaging at the same time. But instead, they all are on facebook chat. How can you get around this problem? Well if that is the case, then you can do it very easily. Want to know how? Then read on and follow our step by step guide for adding your facebook chat to a firefox sidebar, which you can hide and use without having to go on facebook.

Step 1:

The first step is easy, go to the bookmarks on your firefox menu at the top and select the ‘organize bookmarks’ function.Once your on the bookmark menu, go to step 2.

Step 2:

The second step is the most important one so do it as said or it might not work. Select ‘Add a new bookmark’ form the organizing menu. Now place the name as ‘Facebook Chat’.

Then place the url as :http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php.

In some versions of firefox ‘url’ field is also called as ‘location’ field. Remember to enter the address as mentioned above, or it will not work.

Then check the ‘Load bookmark in sidebar’ feature. This is also important if you want to use the chat in the sidebar. Once your done then go to step 3.

Step 3:

The last and final step is to test if your settings are working. Go to the ‘view’ option from your facebook menu bar at the top. Select the sidebar and then click on the ‘Bookmarks’ option. This will launch the sidebar with all your bookmarks. Now all you have to do is find your bookmark and load it. Once you do that you will notice that the facebook pop up will appear, which has the facebook chat in it. All this will take place in the side bar itself.

Note: You have to be logged on to facebook for it to work properly. Just login your account and then load the chat on the sidebar. You can leave the site after that. If it doesn’t work after you leave the site, then make firefox remember your user and password before logging, this will fix the problem.

Now you are ready to go! Have fun chatting with friends and contacts without going on facebook.