Plugins
Various other features are supported using third-party plugins. Such features include:
- Encryption and privacy, through Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR)
- Notifications (such as showing "toaster" popups or Snarl notifications, or lighting LEDs on laptops)
- Showing contacts what you are listening to in various media players
- Adding mathematical formulas written in LaTeX to conversations
- Watching videos directly into your conversation when receiving a video sharing website link (YouTube, Vimeo)
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