Fix for Digsby’s Facebook authentication error

To all Digsby users (ignore this post if you don’t use Digsby):
If you use Digsby with Facebook, you might have noticed that things behave strangely — the program pops up a window looking like this when it tries to connect to Facebook:




Then after you give it your credentials, Digsby still thinks you’re not logged in, and so on.
If you found this page via a google search, there’s a simple hack / workaround you can use to patch up this problem. Basically, instead of using the Facebook protocol to connect, we let Digsby use the Jabber protocol as a ‘proxy’ to connect to Facebook:

1. Go to Digsby -> My Accounts and in the Add Accounts section at the top, select the Jabber icon.
2. You should get a window that looks like this:
   
3. In the Jabber ID box, put your.id@chat.facebook.com, and in the password field, put your facebook password. For example, if your facebook username is at facebook.com/yourname, your Jabber id is yourname@chat.facebook.com.
4. Remove the facebook account from Digsby

At this point, you’re done: Digsby should give you no more problems about Facebook.

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