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From looking at the diff, it seems to be in the same vein as the IRC, XMPP, Google Talk(!), and some weird network I've never heard of "Odnoklassniki" (https://
by mdaniel 5y ago
From looking at the diff, it seems to be in the same vein as the IRC, XMPP, Google Talk(!), and some weird network I've never heard of "Odnoklassniki" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odnoklassniki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odnoklassniki)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/instant-messaging-and-chat#w_start-the-new-account-wizard https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/instant-messaging-and-c...
So, in other words: it merely expands the already shipping chat clients to be just one more
- AdmiralAsshat 5y agoFair enough, I guess. I never realized Thunderbird already supported those. I always had HexChat, Pidgin, or Fractal for IRC/GTalk/Matrix at the ready instead.
- mdaniel 5y agoIt has a good (at least for my purposes) RSS reader, too, which is actually my primary use for it lately https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feeds-and-blogs https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-subscribe-news-feed...
- jokoon 5y agoThunderbird supports irc?
- TingPing 5y agoIt's called Chatzilla, it's not great nor widely used.
- aaronmdjones 5y agoOn the contrary; Thunderbird's chat has built-in IRC support which you can use without installing something like ChatZilla [1][2]. It's not very good, though, including warts such as automatically attempting an SASL login with your credentials, even if you've never registered a services account on the IRC network [3]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/LQrzpoy.png https://i.imgur.com/LQrzpoy.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/X8idAGl.png https://i.imgur.com/X8idAGl.png [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618061 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618061