Integrated client

Much of our time online is spent in the browser, so what better place to keep an eye on our contacts than the sidebar? And it hides with just a tap on F12 (if you can't guess why that's good, then your boss is never around).

Use Jabber, GMail, MSN, AIM, Twitter accounts

...and many more, actually. GMail/GTalk, jabber.org, and many large and small services around the net (such as livejournal.com or gmx.de) provide Jabber accounts to their users. You might even have a Jabber account and not know yet. If you don't have one, creating one is a matter of seconds using the account wizard. Multiple accounts can be configured and connected simultaneously.

(See here for how to chat with contacts from other networks.)

Contact quick finder

Whether you're browsing or chatting, just press Control+Space and type a few letters. Contact list will open and show matching contacts. (More...)

Web page cherrypicking

See a smiley, a rose, a landscape or a comic on and want to share it? Just drag it from web page into conversation area. Want to send a page snippet to a contact? Select the text, then drag and drop it: links, lists, styles will be preserved. And you can create your own smiley collection.

Shared web applications

Playing board games, sketching, giving presentations and browsing maps, there are many ways to interact with your contacts other than just chatting. Best of all, they're hosted on the web, so any programmer can create his own and make it available by just giving around a web address! (More...)

Detachable sidebar and external chat windows

Still prefer your contact list in independent windows? Help us test the experimental features: the detachable sidebar ("Tools → Detach Sidebar") and external chats ("Tools → Preferences → SamePlace pane → Open Chats in: External window").

Password-less OpenID

SamePlace lets you use your IM account as an identity provider. Best of all, there's no password involved, so nothing the bad guys can lay their hands on! (More...)

Highly extensible

Well, it's built on Mozilla! You can add functionality just like in Firefox, by installing extensions.