418255 - Google Talk Add-on for Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Rob Brown]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

If I could programme I would do this myself!  Is there a way to get a Google Talk Add-on for Thunderbird, so it opens up in one application?  Or is this a waste of time and I should just run both applications separately?  I've seen a web-based e-mail client that does this, with a text box, friends, etc in the bottom left of the screen, under the folders.  Just a thought.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's not the responsibility of Mozilla. It should be Google's task, or some other developer.

There are several solutions, but most involve Firefox, or another webbrowser :

- you can access Google-talk from your webbrower, if you have a gmail-account

- Google has a gadget that you can place on your Google homepage, if you have one : <http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-talk-gadget.html>

- someone loaded this gadget in a Firefox sidebar : <http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/03/run-google-talk-in-firefox-sidebar.html>

- there's an extension that packs it as an extension : <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4708>

- normally, you should be able to install that same extension inside Thunderbird (I saved it on my desktop, then used Tools-Add-ons->Install in Thunderbird), but it complains to me that it is not compatible with Thunderbird. Probably because there's no sidebar in Thunderbird.

- there's a Thunderbird extension that claims to be compatible with googletalk, but I haven't tried it : <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/3633>