I received a report about instant message chatting via CommuniGate Pro directly in Mozilla products from Christian Ellsworth of CommuniGate Systems Certified partner Soluciones Integrales (SOLINT). Christian also teaches the CommuniGate Pro Administration Training Course in Spanish. He has been using the xmpp4moz family of plugins as a convenient in-browser chat client for CommuniGate Pro. He reports that this Mozilla plugins worked for him in both the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client on Windows XP.

I tested this with Firefox 2.0.0.6 on MacOS using the free test account I configured on TalktoIP.com. I first installed the following Firefox Add-ons all by hyperstruct:

xmpp4moz	Provides the basic Jabber capability to the browser
JabBiff	Provides a presence notification tool for contacts
SamePlace	Provides the IM Client window and UI controls

Each add-on installation requires a browser restart. I then configured the account as I was prompted to after the SamePlace installation completed. If you with to change your account afterwards, you can create another or reconfigure via the new Jabber menubar item that xmpp4moz installed. If you try this with a TalktoIP account the settings are very simple:

Address: your-account@talktoip.com
Password: your-pass
Advanced...
Server for Connection: mail.talktoip.com
Server Port: 5222
Encryption: None

I do not need SSL for this account and the server has only a self signed certificate so I won't bother with the certificate management. However I did test this with SSL and my work account and it works as expected. Below is a screen shot of the user interface while my TalktoIP account was connected. Click on the image to see a larger preview.