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The new, online version of Facebook Messenger (www.messenger.com) means you can talk directly to friends without needing to visit Facebook itself, although you'll still need to open the Messenger website. A new Firefox add-on called Facebook Messenger Panel (mzl.la/facebook) makes things easier by displaying Messenger in a panel within your browser, which you can open by clicking its toolbar button. This panel can be resized, moved around and ´pinned' to prevent it from closing. You can also set up keyboard shortcuts to show and hide it.