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Title: Best Free IRC client
Post by: doodleface on February 11, 2009, 11:01:38 AM

I wanted to see what people use as there Windows based or Linux based IRC client that is free. Also state what is appealing about it to you as well as input you might have about the security of the application.

I currently use Xchat as my client for Windows, I like it because it has all the functionality of Mirc and its free. I am not aware of anything that is negative from a security standpoint of Xchat, but I would love to hear what everyone has to say about it.

Title: Re: Best Free IRC client
Post by: Manu Zacharia (-M-) on February 11, 2009, 11:23:07 AM

When it's just for chat - I use Chatzilla - the Mozilla Firefox Add-on. When I need more features, i prefer to use mIRC. And finally, when I don't have any of these tools / application, or when I just want to promote our IRC chat , I just use a web based ajax IRC Client (http://chat.theadmins.info). So to summarize:

mIRC
Chatzilla, and
Web based Ajax IRC Client

Title: Re: Best Free IRC client
Post by: don on February 11, 2009, 12:47:50 PM

I don't always IM, but when I do... it's Pidgin. ::)

http://www.pidgin.im/

Don

Title: Re: Best Free IRC client
Post by: jason on February 11, 2009, 01:13:05 PM

I use mIRC usually for irc purposes and Pidgin for IM.

Title: Re: Best Free IRC client
Post by: don on February 11, 2009, 01:23:17 PM

Oops. Read that wrong. mIRC, too.

Don

Title: Re: Best Free IRC client
Post by: geekyone on February 11, 2009, 08:01:17 PM

I prefer mIRC also but it isn't free. It's well worth $20 though.

http://www.mirc.com/register.html (http://www.mirc.com/register.html)

Title: Re: Best Free IRC client
Post by: jason on February 11, 2009, 09:16:07 PM

Hrmmm true enough. I'd likely fall back to chatzilla if it absolutely had to be free.