What is #IRC???

Hello Mozillians, how is communication with other Mozillians is going on??? Yeah that's great. So now get excited to communicate with many Mozillians at a single time, sounds crazy right?? Yes that's were the IRC come to play. IRC stands for "Internet Relay Chat". It's a protocol for real-time chat sessions. (Read more about IRC on Wikipedia.) It was invented before the World Wide Web, so it was adopted by early open source contributors and Web developers, and it has been used by those communities ever since. Like email, no single company controls IRC. IRC servers are offered by many individuals and organizations. Users log in to a particular server to chat with other users on that server, using a client program designed for IRC; just as there are many programs for reading email, there are many different IRC client programs. Chat discussions take place in "channels," which have names starting with a '#' symbol.

Mozilla runs an IRC server to host channels for discussion of topics related to the Mozilla project. If you are a newcomer or veteran, tech-savvy or not, this page is intended to show how to get connected with others in the Mozilla project for online chat.  

The list of IRC's Mozilla use for discussion and do pick an IRC client:

There are several ways to participate in IRC and here are a some options that are ideal for newcomers.

• Mibbit: is a great online chat client that doesn't require any installation and setting up an account is free.

• Chatzilla is an add-on for Firefox; it comes built-in with SeaMonkey. You can also install it standalone.

• Colloquy, a standalone Mac client with a nice looking interface. It also has a mobile client for iPad/iPhone/iTouch.

• Limechat is a cross-platform IRC client by Satoshi Nakagawa. Warning: main site is in Japanese, this is not just for Mac, there are Windows and iOS versions as well. A number of people have happily switched from Colloquy to Limechat.

• Thunderbird is a communication client made by Mozilla. As of version 15, it has IRC support.

• Instantbird is a cross-platform multi-protocol instant messaging client based on Mozilla technologies (and libpurple from Pidgin) with an emphasis on simplicity and extensibility.

• Yaaic is a free (as in freedom), multiserver, Android IRC client, now fully conformant with the UI style of the Iced Cream Sandwich (and later).

• AndChat is a free (as in beer), multiserver, IRC app for the Android platform.

• XChat is a great chat program for both Linux and Windows. 

Play around with these and become a pro in accessing these, it comes to play  to communicate with Mozillians about Mozilla projects, general talk, post your queries etc. ***Cheers!!!*** 

 

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