Access a social platform to find and communicate with friends. Create and join channels with various titles and type certain commands in the server window to set a status, alter a nickname, get detailed information about a user, check the current number of people on a channel, etc.
mIRC is a very popular IRC (Internet relay chat) client. This program allows you to connect to various networks at the same time. Fortunately, it allows voice chat, text formatting and multimedia objects. Moreover, it can handle CTCP commands and events.
The interface is rather straightforward; yet, its design is not very attractive. Its installer has a small size and the program requires no special skills to install it correctly. You will need to provide some initial data, as server name and user name, before you can start using it to communicate. At this point, some inexperienced users may feel a little confused; however, it will help a lot that the program comes with a preset ICR server. After the initial setting, you will surely use it without any difficulty whatsoever. All you need is to connect to a chat room and start to communicate. The first step is choosing one of the multiple available channels (or chat rooms). Moreover, you can also establish a private chat or transfer files to other users.
In general, mIRC has the advantage of being small and reliable. Furthermore, it allows you to connect to a very wide community of users worldwide and share multiple types of contents with them.
v7.29 [Oct 9, 2011]
- The Alt/AltGr keys should now work correctly for users with different keyboard layouts.
- The "Minimize to tray" option now defaults to off under Windows 7 due to the way Windows 7 hides all tray icons by default.
- The Channel Central dialog has been changed so that it can now be resized.
- The /list command issue with min/max values not working on some networks has been fixed.
- Added "Use compatibility mode" option to SSL dialog, which defaults to on. If turned off, OpenSSL will use the "empty fragment" feature which may make your connection more secure at the expense of less compatibility with some SSL servers.
- The /dns command issue with results not being shown when a non-existent nickname is specified has been fixed.
- The tray icon issue with mouse clicks not working in some situations has been fixed
- The /timer -h recursion issue should now be resolved.
- Other changes and bug fixes.
