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Facebook Chat Interrupt

TopiaTopia Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I've been dragged into Facebook Chat being a major means of communication to my friends.

However lately it's been a total pain in the ass. Anytime someone sends me a message in chat one of two things will happen:

1) If I am surfing in an alternate tab, all typing in text boxes stops. I have to select a new tab/window/text box before I can continue typing. This is a total pain in the ass
2) If I am currently viewing a window different than that which Facebook is open, Facebook decides to automatically change which window I am viewing. This is even more of a pain in the ass.

I use firefox, by the way.

Anyone else experience this? How do I fix it?

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  • TheGreat2ndTheGreat2nd Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Alternative solution, use Digsby or Trillian and install a Facebook plugin?
    I don't know how to solve Firefox though.

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    There's also a Facebook plug-in for Pidgin. I think there's another one out there somewhere on Sourceforge, too.

    I've never had that Firefox problem, though - maybe there's something in your JavaScript options that's letting the window-switching happen. I don't use multiple windows of Firefox enough to have encountered this.

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  • PracticalProblemSolverPracticalProblemSolver Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    turn off your facebook chat notifier plugin?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    There's a bug logged for this in Firefox's bugzilla that I've been following.

    You can turn off the sound notify in the options tab of the chat feature and that makes the error stop... they haven't figured out what in Firefox is actually causing the problem yet.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    i hate facebook chat
    seriously random dude i met once in middle school, i don't care about your fucking book, go to sleep

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  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    edited August 2009
    meebo is another client that runs facebook chat. You just go to www.meebo.com, no program to install or anything. Actually using the facebook chat within facebook is almost universally terrible.

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  • mechaThormechaThor Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I use Pidgin with the facebook chat plugin. Asides from random connection issues, it suits me fine, as facebook chat is otherwise a massive pain to deal with.

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