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HrtOfSword:
I just recently discovered that mIRC is actually one of the many Internet Relay Chat clients around instead of being the originator of IRC. (Just like the time when I found out that BitTorrent was one of the many BitTorrent clients available, and there were better alternatives like Azureus, now Vuze.)
So right now, I'd like to find out if there are other recommened IRC clients around that are comparable or better than the mIRC because the lame startup menu that requires you to click TWICE and wait for THREE minutes or so is getting on my nerves.

That menu (in older versions of mIRC) used to go away with one click and the waiting time was rather short, so it was still ok. But making it troublesome and time-consuming just made it go past my limit.
It's like the PDFCreator gone bad... zzz (PDFCreator after ver0.9.6 now has rubbish-ware included)

Besides an alternative to mIRC, does anyone know which is the latest OLD version of mIRC, in which the option to click "skip" appears within 3 seconds and the menu goes away after one click?

relic2279:
I use the chatzilla plugin for firefox. It's not very versatile, especially if you want to run scripts or DCC type things, but I just use it for chat. It also accepts Japanese character input which I have yet to be able to get mIRC to do.

There is also Xchat, which people seem to like, but I believe that isn't free so might have to look for it in the bay of pirates, as it were.

kureshii:
Irssi.

Xiong Chiamiov:
You'll find a list of our recommended irc clients on the wiki.  Most people seem to use mirc, xchat or irssi.


--- Quote from: relic2279 on December 10, 2009, 05:47:57 AM ---There is also Xchat, which people seem to like, but I believe that isn't free so might have to look for it in the bay of pirates, as it were.

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XChat is, in fact, free; the author just requires you to pay him for precompiled Windows versions.  There are other people who will do so for free, although they may be a few versions behind.

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