Google Chat

I can no longer see my chat list from my iGoogle homepage since I upgraded firefox. It's an issue with the browser. I can see the list on my computer at work (haven't upgraded yet) and in IE.
I can see the list from gmail, but would like the list to show on my homepage as well.
How can we get this back?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== My Firefox 3.6.8 update

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Mountain Lion changes my google chat icon / avatar

I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion 10.8.2, and regularly, after a few days of use, I notice that my Google chat icon / image / avatar is being changed to an image that I have on my local machine, that I once had as my login avatar, but have not used now for over 8 years!
It seems that Mountain Lion is telling Google's chat (but not Google+, or facebook) to use this image as my avatar for google chat, even though I am not explicitly telling it to, AND both my contacts and login profile images (System Preferences -> Users & Groups) on my mac are set to the correct image I want.
Originially, my avatar was an animated gif, but I'm trying to replace that everywhere with a standard gif just in case that's the problem, but it doesn't seem to be helping!
Does anyone know where else I may be having this phantom image of me, from 8 years ago show up?? The picture is not my current login or contacts pictures...
I did look at this discussion:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19272677#19272677 but changing my contacts image, even to a standard jpg/gif, did not help.
Does anyone know where else I may be having this phantom image of me, from 8 years ago show up??

Ok... I figured it out on my own...
Messages will regularly (~1 hour I think) change all the avatar/profile images it can for all the various jabber, AIM, etc (including gchat, since it's jabber protocol). I thought it was changing it to my Address book or "contacts" profile, or my login images, but these are independent of the one Messages was using (atleast for me). Here's how I fixed this for me:
Go to Mac OS Menu Bar (when focussed in Messages):
Messages -> Change My Picture...
Then drag an image you want to use into one of the "recents" tab, use the "other" tab, or take a picture of yourself using the web cam. Once you've selected a photo, you can crop it within the image window, or leave it alone. When you're ready, just click "done" button.
That's seeming to fix this PITA for me... why Apple decided my Mac's account image, Contacts profile, and Messages avatar image should all be different... beats me.

Facetime with Google Chat

On GMail you have the capability to open a video chat while in a chat with someone online. I know that facetime operates off the same principal of contacting you through your e-mail address and I was wondering if it was possible to use facetime (or some other application I am not aware of) to utilize google chats video capabilities. I know you can download a "facetime app" for macbook or PC, but I would like to be able to initiate a video chat via my iPad with people who are using Gmail chat.

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/20/social/free-video-chat-apps-for-ipad.html

Firefox 4 will not open google chat - it works on Google!

I cannot use Google chat with the latest download of Firefox. Google chat works perfectly when I use the Google browser.

I had this problem as well, but was able to solve it using this procedure:
- Close firefox from the menu (don't use the 'x' as firefox may continue to run in memory for a while)
- in your start menu, enter the following into the "run" prompt: firefox.exe -P
- The firefox profile manager will open (see attached image)
- In my case I deleted the "default" profile because I didn't care about losing any settings. You may want to simply create a new profile instead in case you need to save your settings.
- To avoid being asked about which profile to be used you can highlight your new profile and then make sure the "Don't ask at startup" checkbox. When ready, press the "Start Firefox" button.
- Voila! That fixed it for me. Like I said, I just created a new "default" profile and everyone worked fine for me; use your own judgement here.
Good luck!

In my messages App, AIM is logged in fine but Google Chat won't connect.

In my Messages app, for the Google chat it just keeps attempting to connect and then times out before repeating the process over and over.
If I go to my actual Gmail tab in my broswer, it logs in to Google Chat just fine, so I know it's possible to connect.
This problem only happens when I travel (I'm a comedian). I have no issues on my home network, but I've seen this when connecting in some hotels, airports, and coffee shops (not all).
Any idea why I can't connect to Google Chat in Messages, but can in my browser?
Thanks for your help!
Josh Sneed

HI,
A Browser Login to Google is going to using port 443 to manage the secure bit about the Login process.
For much of the lifetime of iChat the regular posters in the iChat Forums were recommending changing to port 443 for AIM Logins and in iChat 6 it did actually become the default Login port.
Jabber Logins (and GoogleTalk is a Jabber server) happen on either port 5222 when they don't use SSL and port 5223 when they do.
Google do so the default port is 5223.
In a router the first 1024 ports are open (Allows Web Browsing, mostly port 80, Mail (loads of different ports but 25, 110 m 567, 589, 995 and some common ones) FTP on port 21 and 22, to name some).
Obviously port 5223 is above the 1024 threshold
This can mean in some places this port will not be open.
In some cases you will be able to convince the Hotel or Cafe to open the required ports
At home you have probably got UPnP set to Enabled in your router. (This allows the apps to "tell" the router which ports to open.)
However whilst travelling you may want to log in to GoogleTalk on port 443 (GoogleTalk will accept this)
You have to Disable (Untick the "Enable this account" box) the account to be able to change the port.
It still works with SSL.
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Built in iSight not working with Google chat?

Hi all,
I recently updgraded to Mac OS X version 10.7.2 for my Intel based iMac. Since then, the built in iSight camera does not work with Google Chat. It does work with iChat and Photobooth though.
I reistalled the Google chat plug in (or I guess I installed it again). I ran a check, and my software updates are current. I tried the power down, unplug the power cord, wait 15 seconds routine, and that didn't work either.
When I go in to Mail Settings in gmail, click Chat, and then Verify your Settings, I don't see anything in the window next to it - just black.
Does anyone have any good ideas to help? Using google chat is just a lot more convenient for me than using iChat...
Thanks!

Hi,
For some time now the Google Web Browser Video Chat plug-in (Also and automatic part of Installing Chrome) has been an issue in relation to going to Video Chat sites that use the Flash Plug-in.
My Flash Plug-in in Lion is version 11.1 r102
I don't have the Google one so I could not tell you the latest from them.
I am not sure that Google are moving very fast, if at all on this matter.
It could be as soon as either Flash makes an update it ruins the progress Google have made.
The Notice that EZ Jim has linked you to has been up more than a year (about 1/2 the life time of Snow Leopard)
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The old Google Chat / Messaging APP Problem.

ok so i HAD google chat working er, for a while and now its back to broken, did the usual tests we all do, delete everything, redo, make sure its all 100% accurate blah etc and came to thsi weird result.
making a new google account and using that = failed, the email app logs in gets all the mail no problem but the messaging app just loads forever trying to sign in and does nothing, weird as both apps use exactly the same account details.
however i tried a different approach and it works, why it works is beyond me, i created a new chat account via the actual google chat client on the pc, you get an option to setup a new google account/mail or use an existing non google one, in this case i used a spare hotmail account, i then tied that hotmail account into my primary google email account via the google webpage account prefs, set it as the secondary email.
I clicked new account on the touchpad, selected GOOGLE, then just entered my hotmail email which id just linked in, entered the password, and whammo it instantly works.
I'd have to ask why? and why does the proper method fail using a real google email, i only have 1 google email and wanted 1 seperate for the touchpad so i didnt have to use the 1 i use everyday on the pc but ALL newly made google accounts just fail time after time.
any thoughts here?

it still doesnt work using the google email, deleted or otherwise, google chat will ONLY work when i add my hotmail details (secondary email on my google account) and not the actual google created email (primary mail), however the email app woudl always funtion with the google email flawlessly and only the messaging app would choke on the google email.
so now i have a sort of weird setup in my accounts list where the hotmail account/email is up for use by only the messaging app, i had to untick all the other options and just leave "Use Account With, Contacts ON, Messaging ON, and disabled Calendar/Email/Documents", but the google account/mail is used perfectly by every other app.

Need help with Google Chat

Hi,
These questions might be really simple because I think I'm one of the only people in the UK that's never used an IM before. I thought that as my phone (Palm Pre) could do instant messaging I'd have a go at it. I already had a google mail account (set up to sync my calendars) so thought it'd be easiest to use google chat. However, I seem to only be able to chat with people I've invited or who have invited me to to be their firends, but I can't work out how to do this on the phone.
Yesterday my husband used his phone (HTC desire) to invite me to be his friend on google chat but I couldn't see the invite on my phone. I had to log into my google account on my PC and accept the invitation before we could chat. I also can't see how I invite other people via my phone. I tried logging onto my google account using my phone's browser, but it didn't seem to display the bit where you type the name to invite people.
My other question is probably even more basic. If I have friends on MSN or other messenger services can I contat them using my googlechat service on my phone, or do I have to set up an account for each different messaging service.
Thanks to anyone who can help on this.
P.S. Please don't let my husbands phone be better at this than mine or I'll never hear the end of it :-)

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Voice chat with psi -- Google chat

Hello all,
I have been trying to find a linux IM app that can use voice chat with Google Talk. As far as I can tell, psi is supposed to support this.
I tried version 0.11 from pacman, which connects and everything but there does not seem to be any voice chat.
I used the AUR package and compiled the latest svn version, 0.12rc3 and it works ok, but I still can't find anything within the program to do with voice chatting.
I have been all over the psi wiki etc., and it all seems to suggest that voice chat is included and is working with google chat, but I sure can't find it. Some info dates back to late 2005 with the libjingle branch, but I believe libjingle is now in the main program.
Can someone tell me if voice chat is included in psi, and if so maybe a hint on what might be going wrong for me.
Cheers,
Wittfella

I have been banging my head agaist this and am slowly getting somewhere now...
Psi does come with jingle, but its not enabled by default, because its still deemed 'experimental'.
To get the psi-svn AUR package to compile with voice chat support you have to do a number of things:
1. Use the 'configure-jingle' with '--enable-jingle' option instead of the regular 'configure' script.
./configure-jingle --prefix=/usr --enable-jingle
You can either modify the PKGBUILD or do it all manually.
2. You have to have a specific version of ortp installed otherwise it will not compile. This happens to be ortp-0.7.1 but our pacman version is up to 0.14.0 or so. Luckily you can find the sources for ortp-0.7.1 and it compiles and installs fine.
3. Now the biggest problem. When you try to compile you will get gazillions of errors. It turns out they are quite simple, and are caused by the incompatability problem with gcc-4.3. Most of the errors are solved by opening the offending header file and inserting.
#include <cstring>
So after all that, the good news is I have managed to create a working copy of psi with voice support, however:-
psi <--> google talk connects but there is no audio from either end
psi <--> psi voice chat seems to work fine
If anyone is interested I created packages for psi and ortp. Let me know if you have any more success with google talk.
psi-jingle-1166-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
ortp-0.7.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Google chat will not load nor will the graphics on all the web pages but it works ok in other browsers, what can I do to fix this?

utube vids play but the (pics) graphics do not load on any web page I go to and my google chat says it can't connect to internet but my internet works fine and google chrome works fine too. and google mail graphic buttons for email are not appearing also.

If images are missing then check that you do not block images from some domains.
*Press the F10 key or tap the Alt key to bring up the hidden Menu bar.
Check the permissions for the domain in the currently selected tab in "Tools > Page Info > Permissions"
Check "Tools > Page Info > Media" for blocked images
*Select the first image link and use the cursor Down key to scroll through the list.
*If an image in the list is grayed and "Block Images from..." has a checkmark then remove this checkmark to unblock images from this domain.
Make sure that you do not block (third-party) images, the permissions.default.image pref on the about:config page should be 1.
Make sure that you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the Windows/Mac Accessibility settings.
Make sure that you allow pages to choose their own colors.
*Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"
Note that these settings affect background images.
See also:
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Website_colors_are_wrong
There are extensions like Adblock Plus (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) and security software (firewall, anti-virus) that can block images and other content.
See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Images_or_animations_do_not_load
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Websites_look_wrong

Cant see google chat in gmail only on FF4B2

cant see google chat in gmail only on FF4B2 . while using other browsers or the previous beta version, there was no problem

First, try to update to beta 3.
Second, it is likely that the plugin got disabled due to unproven compatibility, if you install this other addon [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/15003/ here] , it might solve your problem.
Thanks for asking.

Instant Messaging - Why is going through Google chat?

HI There,
I have upgraded to mountain lion on both my imac and macbook pro. I logged into the instant messaging today and I signed in with my apple ID, but then it used google chat to talk to people? I have anoher mac user who messages me and she said she uses it through the mac network. Im confused?
When I logged out of gmail. I went back to the chat and I couldnt chat anymore
Can someone more technical help me clarify?

Hi,
On first run Messages asks you for an Apple ID.
It does not have to be linked to iCloud.
However it does generally mean you could be using an @mac.com @me.com or @icloud.com that is linked to iCloud.
As Apple IDs with these endings are also Valid AIM Screen Names you can use the Messages > Preferences > Accounts pane > + icon under the list to Add them as AIM names.
(1 Name 2 services)
If your Apple ID is an external email such as GoogleMail one then it too can be an Active Jabber ID is Messages (if you enable "Talk" on your Account settings at Google).
Potentially again 1 name 2 services.
Of course as some of these are emails they appear in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars and can be Enabled for Messages there.
However deleting an Account in Messages (Hit the - icon in the accounts list fro anything other than the iMesssages or Bonjour one) should "deactivate" it in the Mail, Contacts and Calendars pane. (As should just unticking the "Enable this Account box").
So....
Your Apple ID can be used for iMessages.
It may also be able to be the Name or ID for another service as well.
Accounts should be able to be Disabled in both the app (Preferences > Accounts) and in System Preferences > Mail, Contacts and Calendars.
If you have an Apple ID that you then linked to iCloud like I did you may have the following:-
An external email that is the original Apple ID that allows access to your iCloud stuff.
An @me.com name that your were given at the initial launch of iCloud
And a Later @icloud.com one as well.
All three with the set password allow access to iCloud.
For iMessages they are separate IDs (it will try to link them like crazy if you have a second iPhone like I do and want to keep them separate)
For AIM they are considered as separate IDs.
Aside from making sure you understand the names and IDs that can be used with which services there odd occasions that are reported when the App will list telephone numbers Only and tell all existing chats lists in the main window are Bonjour Chats as you cycle through all of them.
Other people have reported loss of Names in the Chat listing and one particular service being listed at the "service" that it will be on. (I have seen threads list AIM and Jabber).
The "Bonjour" chat ones seems to be solved by doing a PRAM reset
Shut down the computer.
Restart it holding down Apple/CMD ( or ⌘)+ALT( ⌥)+P+R Keys until you have heard three Start Up Bongs.
The others seem to be linked to the Contacts App not list a My Card.
Your Details should appear at the My Card (Head and Shoulders icon)
If they do not use the Card Menu in the Contacts app to reset it.
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Ok so first of all its saying I'm my sister on Ichat and its logged onto google chat this is horrible i really wanted to use my ichat

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I am not very happy with this its saying Im my sister and its logged onto google chat so i cant get onto my imessage

Google chat status always green

I noticed that since I activated my ipad and setup my gmail account, my google chat status is always green (available) even though my ipad is sleeping (wi-fi on). Google chat status never goes to "idle" or "offline". It works well on my iphone and mac. Any idea? It's annoying 'cause people are trying to contact me and get no response.

Hi,
iChat has several States that it can be in.
Available and Away are the simplest and can have Status Messages added to them.
Then for iChat 4 and 5 there is being Set to Invisible (Available at your end Off line to Buddies)
You can be Off Line, either by Logging out or setting the iChat > Preferences > General Section to Set Status to Off Line On Quit.
Idle is the time the computer calculates there has been no input from keyboard of mouse. It is about 10 mins. (The same as standard Hard Drive Sleep in Energy Saver.
This will make you appear Amber to your Buddies if the Status Message is Set to Available.
Other apps show Idle at Away messages as well but iChat does not, although sometimes mousing over a BUddy will tell you.
8:32 PM Tuesday; March 2, 2010
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Have you looked in the App Store, or on Googles site?

Google Chat on Messages March 2015

Hi folks.
Is it true that Google Chat (Google Talk) is now unavailable in Messages? I read somewhere it has all moved to Hangouts and isn't available anymore.
Having moved to a new router, I can't seem to get this going. Anybody know what ports it is using?
Port 2553 using SSL?
Port 2552 non-SSL?
talk.google.com or gmail.com?
Any insight helpful.
Cheers

Hi,
Bonjour (generally) so it shows up in the Finder's Side Bar > Shares needs port 5353.
If you use the Chat/Messages features it uses port 5298 and 5297 (both on UDP and 5298 also on TCP)
AIM accounts (or Apple IDs that can be AIM Screen Names) used to login on port 5190 but now do so on port 443.
If you use File Transfers your need port 5190 on the UDP protocol.
Video, Audio Only chats and Screen Sharing in AIM, Jabber and Bonjour need port 5678 UDP to send the visible invite then port 16402 to send the SIP invite and data (actually it should be port 16393-16402 but it always starts top down).
Jabber needs either port 5222 for NON SSL logins or Port 5223 for SSL ones
iMessages uses port 5223 to check that your Contacts are registered with iMessages.
I am not aware that any part of iCloud uses this port.
This is from Using iChat with a firewall or NAT router - Apple Support And Using FaceTime and iMessage behind a firewall - Apple Support
You list iCloud as needing port 5223.
Was this for FaceTime, iMessages and this Google ID in Messages ?
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