Facebook Improving Chat Stability, Asking Users to Upgrade from IE6 by September 15

Chat is one of the “most widely used tools on Facebook,” the company says today about its in-house instant message service (although it’s not sharing exact usage numbers).

But the main news is this: Chat has been getting some technical upgrades intended to resolve long-standing stability problems. And, Facebook is following in the footsteps of an increasing number of other web companies in telling users to ditch an archaic web browser, Internet Explorer 6. From the company blog post:

The biggest improvements come from changes that aren’t supported on older web browsers.

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