After 2 + hours of down time the Facebook Chat is back online. Facebook chat goes down for maintenance due to some security flaws as said by Mashable.There is a video to validate the statement . The exploit can let anyone to view live chats and users awaiting friend requests.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny8ui4delEo[/youtube]
The issue has been fixed and facebook chat turns to normal now.
That's good that FB chat is bug free again…anywayz it's always bit irritating to chat on FB.
Yup, the chat service need lots of tweak to avoid those time out errors.
Facebook chat has always been a crap to me but this flaw was really the crucial one. Anyway I am quite happy that its over now!!
Yes @Shahab. I integrated facebook with my desktop messenger pidgin to avoid such chat conflicts. But when i get people chatting from facebook window it again goes tough at their end…
Sync problem with the browser and server usually happens with facebook.
I don't use Facebook chat its awful 🙁 . Its good that chat service is back.