Chat! I have!
Sweet! Chat has been enabled in my Gmail account. (Yours will come soon, really - the rollout will just take a few weeks.)
We've been using Gmail Chat internally for a while now and I rely on it completely. I was surprised to find that my IM usage within a browser, previously dormant, became commonplace as well as becoming my default messaging environment. I don't suspect that'll happen to everyone, but I'm pretty curious to whom that does happen.
Dear Talk team: You are cougar. (Trying to coin a complement.)
Dear Safari users: We know. We love you. We're in progress.
17 Comments:
At 11:41 AM,
rux said…
Yup. To me the integration provides productivity boost since I normally open my Gmail page all the time. It'd be good if I don't have to switch tabs anymore whenever I want to IMs, emails and reading feeds. WOW!
At 6:40 AM,
Anonymous said…
few weeks as in a few weeks or a few months? :)
At 1:33 PM,
Anonymous said…
:( I'm a safari user and I'm not feeling the love right now.
At 6:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Still not much love for Safari users :(
At 5:25 PM,
Anonymous said…
Sad Mac :-(
I'm still waiting.......
At 11:03 AM,
Fredrik said…
It's been 8 months and the safari love is nowhere to be seen :( Wonder how the Safari development team feel about it, since the lack of support for gmail chat has made me switch to Firefox.
At 11:28 AM,
Opspin said…
All safari users are mac users and therefore have iChat, just log in to your google talk with Jabber build right in to iChat, and enjoy videoconferencing with all your Mac friends, all your less fortunate friends with pc's will only be able to text you through their gmail, but still I say let iChat take care of your gmail chat, then you don't have to have your browser open all the time just to be able to chat.
At 3:28 PM,
postylem said…
May 2007, and still no safari support. (yes, all tiger users have the option of iChat, but that doesn't work with Panther).
You love us? Too bad, but it's not showing. In fact all google products seem to lack some good old malophilia (or "macophilia" to coin a term).
At 12:08 PM,
Daël said…
I join the people complaining about no support for safari. Probably the best browser around, but I'm using firefox instead due to this.
At 1:29 PM,
Anonymous said…
September 07, and still waiting. Could something that seems so simple be so hard to implement in Safari? I guess that says more about Safari's framework than anything else.
Chalk me up as another guy who has had to switch to the Fox until this happens.
At 2:51 AM,
Adz said…
Any news on Safari support - upgrading to Leopard on Friday and would love to go back to a lovely brand spanking new fast version of Safari!
At 8:55 AM,
Wader said…
using leopard now and hoping to go back to safari too... any idea when this feature is coming?
At 11:53 AM,
chris said…
December 07, can't find anything online saying safari has googlechat yet... any sign anywhere?
At 12:03 PM,
Chris Wetherell said…
Just an update to the post: chat is working for Safari 3.0 on both Windows and Mac OS X.
At 1:04 PM,
cyberdoyle said…
not in my safari, version 3, leopard it isn't. Am I doing something wrong? I can open the googlechat window as a separate entity, but can't see it in the sidebar as I can in firefox.
At 2:30 PM,
Chris Wetherell said…
cyberdoyle: Do you mean the sidebar within Gmail that also shows Labels and various links like "Compose Mail"? If so, then check the top bar of Gmail: is there a link to "Older version" or to "Newer version"? Chat only works in the newer version, so if you see the "Newer version" link, you'll need to click that to get it to work. (I'm currently using chat in Leopard and Safari 3.0.4.)
If that doesn't help you might want to check Settings>Chat in Gmail and see if what you have set for "Chat list location".
At 6:53 AM,
cire said…
(2008-03-04) GChat works for me in Safari 3.0.4 on Tiger (10.4.11).
Do the latest OS software update and it should work.
Thanks Gmail team!!!!
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