Setup Facebook Chat with Messages in OS X Mountain Lion

Mon, Feb 20, 2012

Apple recently announced OS X Mountain Lion and is expected to be released this summer 2012. If you’re adventurous enough, you can download and try out the developer beta release of OS X Mountain Lion.

For the remaining mere mortals - you and me - you can try out Messages Beta which will be part of the new upcoming OS X Mountain Lion.

You can use your iCloud ID to sign-in to Messages and start using it right away. The other supported services are AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! and Jabber Protocol.

Setup Facebook Chat with Messages

You can setup Facebook Chat to work with Messages. Follow these simple steps -

Add a New Account and choose “Account Type” as Jabber.
Add Account Name as "username@chat.facebook.com" (replace ‘username’ with your username).
Enter your Password.
Click on the “Server Options”;
- Server: chat.facebook.com
- Uncheck ‘Use SSL’
- Port: 5222