Ralph Johns

iChat Information Pages

Version 3

iChat Icon

These iChat 3 pages are coloured Orange and have the iChat 3 icon on them that was in use at the time, so you know where you are. The icon differs from Version 1 by having the camera logo added and from iChat 2 by having the Running Man removed.

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

iChat 3 Pictures

You are In:- iChat >> Versions >> iChat 3 >> iChat 3 Pictures Index >> iChat 3 firewall Index >> Pop Out
UP and Back icon Back Arrow icon Next pic Arrow icon 2[3] 02 Pop Out. Oct 2008
Drop Down pic
2 Pop Out

This is the Pop Out where you need to select Other as marked at the bottom.

Slide out drawer

To get here you will have opened System Preferences > Sharing and the Firewall tab and selected the New Button. That presents you with a slide out drawer as shown on the left that has a drop down as the first item. You can make out in this second picture that it reads "Other" and that has to be selected in the Main picture of this page. The picture has also been altered to show all the UDP Ports but I will show that picture next.

After you have selected "Other" in the drop down you should enter the ports and give the entry a name (Description).

The last Picture in the Sequence is the Ports to be entered.

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Created October, 2008 Major Update/Edit October 2024.

 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

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This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

BAsically this is an extra picture to supplement the main set and shows the Pop Out to select "Other"

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September/October 2024 moving towards being fully HTML 5 compliant meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) should/may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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