Looks like Facebook silently introduced encryption for chats in XMPP/Jabber clients (Pidgin, Adium, etc.): Its servers now support the use of TLS as defined in RFC 3920.
Facebook’s FAQs (1, 2) have not been updated accordingly yet.
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As of today Google finally supports searching over SSL. Expectedly, you can use it via https://www.google.com/.
Firefox’s built-in search capabilities still use the unencrypted search, though. To remedy this I built an OpenSearch plug-in which makes Firefox use the HTTPS-based search:
Install Google Secure Search Plug-In
(Read more about Google’s SSL Search here)