On the JAVA issue, I was confused. I had disabled JavaScript, which is not the same thing as Java. Turns out JavaScript is not the issue, and now I can have G-chat back. It's the Java plug-in that's the issue. You can go here to find out what version of Java you're running; it's the "JDK7," or version 7 that is at risk, per Oracle, Java's ( Read more... )