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Pidgin doesn’t officially support Facebook Chat (yet?), but it can be customized with useful add-ons like the new Facebook Chat plug-in. Once installed, the plug-in allows Pidgin to log-in to a Facebook account, pull the buddy-list, and send/receive messages.

Adium, arguably Pidgin’s counterpart on Mac, also received support for Facebook Chat in the current 1.3 beta release, though, the feature is absent from the most current official update. If you’re a risk-taker who enjoys putting his/her computer in jeopardy for the sake of testing new software, give it a shot.

We’ve also covered a couple of other methods of taking Facebook Chat outside the site:

1. There’s a Firefox plug-in that adds the social-network’s IM service to a sidebar.
2. The social software/service one-stop-shop known as Digsby also added support for Facebook Chat earlier this year.

[via Lifehacker]

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