Add Facebook chat to Pidgin

After using Digsby happily for some time I have have realised the main limitation, no portable version. I have been going through my 'Portable Apps' collection and rediscovered Pidgin. One of the few things that held me back from moving back to Pidgin was its lack of Facebook chant support. Thankfully this issue seems to have been solved thanks to the hard work of 'eionrobb' over at Google Code.

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They have published a pidgin-facebook plugin for both Windows and Linux. I have installed this and so far it is working with Facebook chat as advertised. Simply downloads the plugin for your platform (and the corresponding icons) and install to your plugin folder.

With the additional announcement on the Adium blog that they have successfully integrated Facebook chat into Adium, that seems to have Mac, Windows and Linux covered.

I have been looking forward to the release of Digsby for the Mac, but now that Adium and Pidgin have Facebook support I am struggling to justify changing my IM client of choice.

The only place I can't log into Facebook chat now is my mobile - any chance of an update from Fring?