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So, it’s come to my attention that facebook chat has one rather annoying bug. If you use a rebranded firefox, the chat merely does not load. It appears that they are checking the useragent of the browser, as opposed to checking for paritcular features and abstracting the functions.

This is a rather annoying problem on ArchLinux. ArchLinux (due to an issue I don’t know anything about) releases Firefox under the project names, such as Shiretoko (Firefox 3.5 or Namoroka (Firefox 3.6). This means that, by default, Firefox on ArchLinux can not use facebook chat at all.

I’d love to see this fixed.

Note: If you are on ArchLinux, you can install and run firebrand from the aur.