Good day to all!
I've been trying to use Empathy for Facebook chat for quite some time now but whenever I try to enable it, I get the "Applications can no longer access your Facebook online account blah, blah, blah…" and so I tried going to Online Accounts and then grant access. But whenever I click the button to grant access, it reverts back to "off" after maybe three seconds. What's happening and how can I solve this?
P.S.
I already tried using Pidgin but I still get the same error. Sometimes I get the "authorization failed" error as well.
Also, I can log into my FB account using my web browser.
Best Answer
A note upfront: It appears that Empathy doesn't support Facebook's messaging service, but Pidgin, a similar multi-messaging client based on the same library
libpurple
, does with a plug-in as described below.(Source)
The following instructions are written for Pidgin and while they should work for the same for Empathy in theory (since they're both based on
libpurple
), people report that Empathy doesn't accept this plug-in for some reason.(Source with some modifications)
This means, future libpurple versions in Ubuntu (and probably earlier in the Pidgin PPA) will include
purple-facebook
and supersede the above procedure.