Geek Posted July 6, 2011 Posted July 6, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/facebook-video-chat.png" alt="Facebook video chat in Mac OS X Lion" title="facebook-video-chat" width="469" height="138" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18371" /></p> <p>Facebook just announced their built-in video chat feature that uses Skype to initiate video calls, but unfortunately support for the new feature is lacking for users with <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X Lion</a> and the latest version of Safari. If you try it, you’ll see the video call button has been greyed out with a message saying “Not supported in this browser or OS version”.</p> <p>Don’t worry, there’s a ridiculously easy fix, all you need to do is change your browsers user agent in Safari (or Chrome or Firefox), here’s how in Safari:</p> <ul> <li>Pull down the Developer menu and select “Safari 5.1 – Mac”</li> <li>Reload Facebook and enjoy video chatting</li> </ul> <p>Tough work huh? <span id="more-18368"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/enable-facebook-video-chat-lion.jpg" alt="Enable Facebook Video Chat in OS X Lion" title="enable-facebook-video-chat-lion" width="550" height="411" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18369" /></p> <p>I’m a little surprised that Facebook overlooked Mac OS X Lion support considering much of their office uses Mac’s and MacBook Pro’s, but maybe the developers haven’t tried out Lion GM yet. I’ll bet support will come relatively soon, but for now, this trick from <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/06/enable-facebook-video-calling-in-lion">9to5mac</a> does the job.</p> <p>Somewhat related, don’t miss the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/20/disguise-facebook/">Facebook disguiser Excellbook</a>, it makes Facebook look like a spreadsheet so you can pretend you’re working while you facebook all day long.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ky_AwCY7o3S3KPF_z1X0H8_uzaI/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ky_AwCY7o3S3KPF_z1X0H8_uzaI/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ky_AwCY7o3S3KPF_z1X0H8_uzaI/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ky_AwCY7o3S3KPF_z1X0H8_uzaI/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2A68cGVIN0g:G-UHF045Snc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2A68cGVIN0g:G-UHF045Snc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=2A68cGVIN0g:G-UHF045Snc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2A68cGVIN0g:G-UHF045Snc:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=2A68cGVIN0g:G-UHF045Snc:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2A68cGVIN0g:G-UHF045Snc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=2A68cGVIN0g:G-UHF045Snc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/2A68cGVIN0g" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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