> My understanding is that upgrading to Hangouts still > disables the old XMPP support. Sort of; the web interface will connect to either Hangouts or XMPP, b

> My understanding is that upgrading to Hangouts still > disables the old XMPP support. Sort of; the web interface will connect to either Hangouts or XMPP, but not both at once. XMPP continues to work fine for non-web clients, such as Pidgin.