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This is a category for IRC clients that are either free software or open-source software. Pages in category "Free IRC clients" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
The Direct Client-to-Client Protocol (DCC) has been the primary method of establishing connections directly between IRC clients for a long time now. Once established, DCC connections bypass the IRC network and servers, allowing for all sorts of data to be transferred between clients including files and direct chat sessions.
Visual IRC (ViRC) is an open-source Internet Relay Chat client for the Windows operating system. Unlike many other IRC clients , nearly all of the functionality in ViRC is driven by the included IRC script , with the result that the program's behavior can be extended or changed without altering the source code .
A number of web browsers have built-in IRC clients, such as: Opera used to have a client, but no longer supports IRC; ChatZilla add-on for Mozilla Firefox (for Firefox 56 and earlier; included as a built-in component of SeaMonkey). Web-based clients, such as Mibbit and open source KiwiIRC, can run in most browsers.
UnrealIRCd is an open-source IRC daemon, originally based on DreamForge, and is available for Unix-like operating systems and Windows.Since the beginning of development on UnrealIRCd c. May 1999, many new features have been added and modified, including advanced security features and bug fixes, and it has become a popular server.
KVIrc is a graphical IRC client for Linux, Unix, Mac OS and Windows. The name is an acronym of K Visual IRC in which the K stands for a dependency to KDE, which became optional from version 2.0.0. [4] The software is based on the Qt framework and its code is released under a modified GNU General Public License. [5]
Irssi (Finnish pronunciation: ) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU GPL-2.0-or-later in January 1999. [1] The program has a text-based user interface was written from scratch using C.
BitchX / ˈ b ɪ tʃ ɛ k s / is a free IRC client [1] that has been regarded as the most popular ircII-based IRC client. [2] The initial implementation, written by "Trench" and "HappyCrappy", was a script for the IrcII chat client. [2] It was converted to a program in its own right by panasync (Colten Edwards). BitchX 1.1 final was released in ...