Although, with ChatBook, youre looking at wasting about half your screen.Its how most of your friends, if not you, like to communicate.
A lot of people hate that Facebook Messenger on Android and iOS was split from the main app and that you can no longer use the main app to chat. I like the Messenger app and the reason is that it is hands down the best way to chat with my friends. In the days of GTalk and Yahoo Messenger I used to be a big fan of IM clients. ![]() The thing with IM clients is that the chat history is limited to the app. So if Im using an IM client on Mac ( Adium was my choice), and I switch to the iPhone for a while, the messages I typed on the iPhone wont show up in Adium. ![]() Ive tried a couple of Chrome extensions that try to bring Facebook chat out of Facebook but none of them really worked. Im glad to say that Ive been successful in my pursuit of finding a good Facebook chat client for Mac. One where its just about the chat, without any other Facebook distractions. It can run the Facebooks web interface inside a window, just like any other browser. But it has features like pop-out windows for viewing photos and video, and device-level integration for notifications. When you click the menu bar icon for Current, it opens up a drop-down window that contains friend requests, messages, and notifications. Each chat gets its own floating window that you can move anywhere on the screen. What I love about Current: Its fast. And stable. After using so many sucky IM clients and hacks for enabling Facebook chat on desktop, Im surprised how good Current is. Facebook Voice Chat Free And AdIts free and ad supported (though you can pay 1.99 to remove these). While Ive yet to see an ad, I have gotten annoying pop-ups for upgrading to a pro account. And this happens out of the blue, when youre not even using the app. Very annoying. The app replicates the sidebar from Facebook, including the ticker. Which is weird because its an app thats just meant for chatting. Just grab the divider between the ticker and friend list and drag it all the way up. You cant pop any windows out, and when a chat window is on screen, so is the friend list. Browsing the web when you have a Facebook chat docked at the corner of the screen is incredibly useful.
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