Use chatzilla to connect to the IRC channel of the red Linux Forum

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I have read the IRC post on pidgin before, but I was not familiar with the IRC operating mechanism at the time, and I was still looking for a place to register, but later I found that IRC does not need to be registered, only one nickname is enough.
As a result, I used pidgin to access IRC, but pidgin is really uncomfortable. There are no shortcut keys for posting and Chinese characters cannot be entered. Later, when someone in the ubuntu chat room said chatzilla was used (if I remember correctly), I tried chatzilla, which is much better than pidgin.

About chatzilla
ChatZilla is an IRC client software based on Mozilla web browser. It is written in XUL and JavaScript languages.
The ChatZilla program is very lightweight. Because it is based on the Mozilla web browser, ChatZilla is cross-platform and can be used in multiple operating systems. ChatZilla supports the features of most IRC client software, such as connecting multiple IRC servers at the same time, supporting UTF-8 and so on. ChatZilla supports JavaScript as the scripting language.
ChatZilla can be used as a plug-in for Firefox, Mozilla, and SeaMonkey web browsers.
(From Baidu encyclopedia)

IRC Basics
Note: These basics can help you better use IRC. If you only want to know how to access our IRC chat room, you can skip this step.
1. irc url and its representation
Many things on the Internet have one or more URLs, and IRC is no exception. Every IRC server and chat room also have their own URLs.
First, let's review how Web pages and website URLs are represented on the Internet. Simply put, it is "protocol name: // server name/subdirectory". The same is true for IRC. The protocol name for IRC is irc. The following is the server name, such as the freenode.net server, IRC: // freenode; the irc server is not a subdirectory, but a chat room. For example, the IRC chat room of the red Union Forum is named linux110 and the IRC is named linux110, after the connection, the IRC chat room of the red link forum is expressed as irc: // freenode/linux110. Similarly, the ubuntu-cn chat room under freenode is expressed as irc: // freenode/ubuntu-cn. The expression of the ora-zh chat room under freenode is irc: // freenode/fedora-zh. Once you know how to express the irc url, you can enter this URL in the address bar of Firefox. If your system contains an IRC client (you can also use the webpage IRC ), then you can directly or indirectly connect to the IRC server through Firefox and open the IRC chat room. Similarly, you can add such a URL to Firefox bookmarks for future use.
2. commands in IRC
As an old chat protocol, IRC certainly won't forget to design commands during design. If you are familiar with IRC commands, you can use IRC better.
All IRC commands start with a slash "/". In other words, if a slash is added before the chat content, the server/client will be parsed as a command. If the command cannot be identified, an error is reported. Here I will first tell you a commonly used command -- join command can be used to join a specified chat room after a server is added. The method is/join # chat room name, for example, you can use/join # ubuntu-cn to join the ubuntu-cn chat room in freenode.
3. IRC servers, chat rooms, nicknames, administrators and robots
IRC server: the IRC server provides a basic IRC chat environment. Since the IRC Protocol is open, IRC has many servers and is famous for its freenode server.
Chat Room: a chat room is usually used to gather people with the same characteristics on a fixed topic. Generally, there is a chat room under each IRC server, you cannot chat without entering the chat room. You can use the join command to join a specified chat room. If the chat room does not exist before, the server may create a chat room, but it may not exist for a long time.
Nickname: nicknames are used to differentiate different users. After a server is added, you must have a nickname. This nickname is often specified by the client and can be modified by yourself, the nickname of IRC does not need to be registered. Of course, if necessary, you can also apply to the server for registration of the nickname service to prevent others from stealing or using it in some special chat rooms.
Administrator: usually refers to the administrator of a chat room. The Administrator is the person used to manage the chat room. He or she can kicker and set the subject of the chat room. When a chat room is successfully established, the person (nickname) it is the administrator of this chat room. In the client, administrators are often marked differently to distinguish between administrators and common users. Of course, for non-fixed chat rooms (some chat rooms only have their own fixed URLs but are not kept on the server for a long time), the first person to enter is the administrator. When you are an administrator, do not play the game at will.
Robots: robots are divided into robots provided by servers and robots built by users or administrators. Robots provided by servers are often used to provide services and help to users, such as ChanServ. They are used to provide services related to this channel and provide some help to users. Robots built by users or administrators are often implemented using some clients with related functions or some auxiliary programs with related functions to implement some automated functions, for example, a robot automatically records logs, automatically kicks out irrigation users, and automatically answers some simple questions. A poor robot will interfere with the normal use of other users, give some fixed Tips), so in addition to robots such as logging, do not create any other robots. It is best to ask the Administrator in advance to build again. In addition, this type of machine has no strict line with ordinary users. A common user uses the robot function, and this user becomes a robot, A common user can also use a self-built robot to speak in a chat room.

Add and enable chatzilla under Firefox
Okay, now the new version of firefox is coming soon. At the beginning of the creation of this post, firefox is still three o'clock, and only two years has reached 13, I will take the firefox version (now 10) as an example.

In linux, most of them are integrated with firefox. It is not difficult to download and install firefox in windows.

Open Firefox, click the tool menu, and select "additional components ". (Some versions may have different la s, so you can find them carefully)


Enter "chatzilla" in the search box and click search on the right.
The second is the Chinese package. Click the "Install" button on the right of the two items to start downloading and installation.


The following will wait for firefox to download and install the two plug-ins


After installation, You need to restart firefox and click any "restart now" button.


Now there is a chatzilla in the tool menu. Click it to go to the menu.


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Red link IRC: # linux110 channel on freenode welcome)
[Graphic tutorial] use the IRC channel of the red Linux forum on Pidgin to communicate with you in real time.
Several available chat rooms