Can't connect to Google Talk (Gmail or Apps account) with Pidgin

I've tried XMPP and Google Talk as protocol. Neither can connect. I abhor Gmail's chat client, or Chrome's chat extension. Pidgin used to work (even a few weeks ago, but I re-installed Windows). On one occasion I got an email from Google about stopped external client access because of outdated

Need to see all buddies in a single window in different tabs

Hi, This is how I see the screen, when chatting with different buddies at the same time- I do not want the left scroll bars, instead I want to see all the buddies in the above window as different tabs.Please let me know the setup for the same.My pidgin version is *Pidgin

Re: Need to see all buddies in a single window in different tabs

It looks like you have tabs enabled, but placed on the left. Go to Tools --> Preferences --> Interface, look for the Tabs section, find "Placement" and change it to "Top", see if this does what you want? Also, are you aware that this is a volunteer support mailing list for an open-source