trick: meebo.com

Want to keep an eye on your meebo buddy list? Open the website in Firefox's sidebar (there's even a preference you can check off on your bookmark) and it'll be visible as you browse. Caveat: sounds won't work. Also, it takes some fiddling to get the sidebar width narrow enough to comfortably browse yet keep the buddy list from jumping all around, and some scrolling to log in or see preferences and chat windows.