Comment 1 for bug 302314

As an aside, if someone else who is affected by this bug attempts the workaround I provided in the bug description to connect to Google Talk, and Pidgin warns that "the certificate presented by 'talk.google.com' claims to be from 'gmail.com' instead", you might be connecting to incorrect (obsolete?) ports. Go to Accounts->Manage, select your Google Talk account and click "Modify", and on the "Advanced" tab, and try the following settings (they worked for me):

Check "Require SSL/TLS"
Check "Force old (port 5223) SSL"
Uncheck "Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams"
Uncheck "Use GSSAPI (Kerberos v5) for authentication"

Set the "Connect port" to 443
Set the "Connect server" to talk.google.com

I suppose this comment doesn't relate to this bug other than that I ran into the problem described in this comment while trying to work around the problem described by this bug. I hope it helps someone else. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post such a comment.