News
qwebirc is a fast, easy to use, free and open source IRC client designed by and originally just for the QuakeNet IRC network.
Feel free to download and have a play.
News
2017-07-25: move to git and github
After many years on Mercurial and Bitbucket: the project has moved to git and Github.2012-02-15: various updates
Recent additions to qwebirc since last news post:- CTCP website support
- Nicklist hiding support in widget
- User-friendly nickname validation
- IE9 support
- support for server SSL connections.
- adaptive timeout for COMET connections (saves a lot of bandwidth).
- experimental: API for external commands (currently only /SAY).
- experimental: more theming support.
- IPv6 proxy support
- in progress: multiple server support (multiserver branch).
2009-06-20: SSL!
SSL support has been added, so now you can use qwebirc over https.2009-06-06: New features
Some new experimental features have been added, including notification by favicon/titlebar flashing, operator menus, and dependency checking (should make installation clearer).2009-04-12: WEBIRC style blocks
qwebirc now supports WEBIRC style blocks, allowing hostname setting on most ircds, as well as ASCII case-mapping.2009-03-18: Initial release
qwebirc's source code has finally been released to the public under the GPLv2!Feel free to download and have a play.