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Pidgin is a cross platform instant messaging client that has multiple chat protocols including IRC. It has support for almost every other chat service available.
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LicenseGPL
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Message historyOptional
MediaVideo send/receive, Images
OpensourceYes
Video chatYes
EmoticonsAdd-on
End to EncriptionAdd-on
Spell checkingYes
Notification intergationAdd-on
Chat plugins SMS, Facebook, Discord, Skype, Telegram, WhatsApp, Steam IM, Battel.net, GoogleHangouts, Twitter feeds, Amazon Chime, WeChat, QQ, Rocket.chat, Slack, Mattermost, Tox, OkCupid,
Off the Record MessagingAdd-on
Supported protocolsBonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Lotus Sametime, Novell GroupWise, OSCAR, SIMPLE, SILC, XMPP, Jingle, Zephyr, Various extended protocols.
Pros
Pro Support for a wide range of additional chat services
Pidgin not only supports IRC, it also supports plenty of other services such as AIM, Google Talk, MSN, ICQ and plenty of others. This way, you can have all of your conversations in the same app and won't have to deal with multiple chat windows being open.
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Cons
Con Miserable IRC font controls (as of 2.13.0.17)
Does its best to avoid putting sensible default font controls in any place where you can get to it. And when it does grudgingly change it, based on system preferences (not local preferences), it does so in an inconsistent and unpredictable fashion.
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Recommendations
Pidgin
2 years ago
no real support, no formats in irc... that mean no colors, no fonts etc... there is no real meaningful faq to help, and whoever handles this mess doesn't act as if the many people whom take issue with the problems should basically mover along
Con
Miserable IRC font controls (as of 2.13.0.17)