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Thanks for sharing that. The pain of all this would much greatly lessened if they would make a decent non-browser-based desktop client, or at least open up the

Thanks for sharing that. The pain of all this would much greatly lessened if they would make a decent non-browser-based desktop client, or at least open up their server-side conversation history API to third party client development.

shepardrtc 12y ago
Google Talk is a great, lightweight client that I've used for many, many years. Google Hangouts is an obnoxious pain-in-the-ass that I stopped using after a couple of days. I just want something lightweight and not dependent on my browser. I use Chrome, but Hangouts just gets in the way. Google Talk does not.
- zo1 12y ago
  Agreed... I just had a discussion with a coworker that recently switched over to Hangouts from GoogleTalk. They came across weird/odd/non-standard behavior whereby the chat windows "float" above everything, even after losing focus. You have to actively "minimize" them in order for them to go away. It's a mess.