Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Add Facebook Notifications and Chat to Firefox's Toolbar

Add Facebook Notifications and Chat to Firefox's ToolbarFirefox 17 added a hidden feature to enable notifications and chat from Facebook right in your browser. Here's how to enable it.

Update: There's actually a much easier way to turn this on. Just head to Facebook Messenger for Firefox's official page and click "Turn On." That's it! You can click the Facebook icon to hide the chat sidebar as well.

To check out the new feature, make sure you've updated to the latest version of Firefox, then type about:config into the address bar. Promise Firefox you'll be careful, then search for social.enabled using the about:config search bar. Double-click the social.enabled option to set it to True. You should find that you have Facebook notifications for friend requests, messages, and other posts in the upper right-hand corner of your browser. It may not be the best way to stay productive, but it's nice to have.

Unfortunately, it also adds a chat sidebar and mini-feed to the side of your browser, making this a deal killer for most people (including myself). If you spend a lot of time on Facebook chat, I could see it being handy to chat from any window you want, but you can remove this by going back to about:config and setting social.sidebar.open to false. Thanks to Stephen and Mark Molinyawe for sharing that second tweak!

How to Enable Facebook Integration in Firefox | How-To Geek

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/LxcQv0qiDiM/add-facebook-notifications-and-chat-to-firefoxs-toolbar-with-an-aboutconfig-tweak

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