Mozilla and Facebook today announced the official launch of Facebook Messenger for Firefox. While the new addition became available last month with the release of Firefox 17, Mozilla is officially flipping the launch switch today.
Facebook Messenger for Firefox is built on Mozilla’s Social API for the Web. The new feature allows Firefox users to chat away with their Facebook friends no matter what site they’re on; as my colleague Ken Yeung put it, “you could be on Twitter and still send Facebook messages.”
To use the feature, you’ll need to install Firefox 17, visit the Facebook Messenger for Firefox page and click the green “Turn On.” Once you enable it, you’ll get a social sidebar with your Facebook Chat, updates like new comments and photo tags, as well as notifications for messages, friend requests, and so on that you can respond to directly from Firefox.
Mozilla’s justification for the feature is that as social sites become more and more prevalent, the organization wants to make it easier to access them.In other words, this isn’t going to stop at Facebook; as we’ve noted, Mozilla has integrated a whole Social API into Firefox. In fact, the company says it will “soon add support for more features and multiple providers.”
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