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hey i'm seth rosenblatt and today i'm going to show you how to get facebook messenger to become besties with firefox it's a new under the hood feature in Firefox called the social API which allows social networking sites to look directly into the browser so in the case of Facebook that means your messenger sidebar the status updates and friends online will be persistent across any site you visit first log into Facebook in firefox 17 or newer then go to facebook.com / about / messenger dash for dash Firefox click turn on instantly you'll see the facebook Messenger sidebar with friends status updates at the top and friends online below it also appearing are the four buttons to the right of your navigation bar these let you control the facebook Messenger integration including removing it the first button links to your profile as well as letting you hide the sidebar and desktop notifications this is also where you remove it entirely the next button lets you accept friend requests without having to go to your Facebook page as the icons indicate the third button pulls up a list of your recent messages and the fourth shows recent notifications so far Facebook maker Mozilla hasn't announced any other social networking site support for their API but I'd be surprised if Twitter Linkedin and others didn't come on board sooner rather than later foreseen it i'm seth rosenblatt and like one seventh of the world i'm also on facebook you