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Google chat uses Jabber, so any Jabber compatible client will work (ie all of them)
by joeguilmette 15y ago
Google chat uses Jabber, so any Jabber compatible client will work (ie all of them)
- moe 15y agoAs much as I wanted to like jabber (I gave it a fair chance with openfire for almost a year), there are multiple problems, namely: 1. Audio and Video calls do not work with "any compatible client". I have in fact never gotten them to work at all. 2. Most jabber clients are awful and buggy. 3. Jabber support in multi-protocol clients is even more awful and buggy. 4. Nobody uses it, at least over here in europe. 5. Everybody over here uses Skype. If there was a reliable way to bridge jabber<->skype then I would bite and switch again.
- joeguilmette 15y ago1. Yea, for Audio/Video you need to go to the browser (but the browser is IMHO better than Skype for A/V) 2 & 3. ICQ, AIM (I think), iChat, Trillian... Etc. I like all of them. 4. At least in the States everyone uses Gmail (most everyone in SV that is) 5. Skype is prevalent in the work environment, I just don't know why. It sucks pretty hard and everyone hates it. Just my opinion, I have had great success with Gmail/Google Voice and iChat (for chat with my Gmail Jabber account)