Hi Charlax welcome to AP
Have you got AIM chat? sign up with
www.AOL.com and you can use AOL chat with your Aol screen name Free (and get a big extra mailbox) link through off Gmail

Returning to Gmail click Chat and you
Bring up your Address list..
Look right down the page for this
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Google Mail view: standard |
turn on chat | basic HTML Learn more
Press this Highlighted link on your page before you open Chat Ok?
Suggest also your Google account is always signed in (tick box on the sign in page)
If you have a dropout the Link may log you out and you lose the chat?
PS The AIM site supports Video(webcam) and Audio chat too
Gmail has not evolved to use these yet
