&gt; And I much prefer current hangouts to the old google talk plugin. &quot;small&quot;, &quot;light&quot;? Did you ever use it. You needed to download and install 2 separate programs to get Google Talk video chat working. Sometimes you&#x27;d need to do some port forwarding bullshit just to get it to work.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure the GP is referring to the native google talk client that gtalk was originally launched with. It was indeed a very simple jabber+sip client (by far the simplest of the major available clients) and had a tiny memory footprint. It did nothing but chat and voice calls.<p>It looked like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;en&#x2F;7&#x2F;75&#x2F;Google_talk.gif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F;wikipedia&#x2F;en&#x2F;7&#x2F;75&#x2F;Google_talk.g...</a>