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When comparing KVIrc vs Mibbit, the Slant community recommends KVIrc for most people. In the question“What are the best IRC clients for Windows?” KVIrc is ranked 6th while Mibbit is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose KVIrc is:
Help files and online resources show all of the feature and scripting capabilities.
Specs
Auto updateNo
CRLNo
CTCPYes
DANENo
DCCCHAT SEND RESUME TSEND Passive DCC REVERSE RSEND Reverse/Firewall DCC FSERV XDCC VOICE
EmoticonsYes
IPv6Yes
InterfaceGUI
LicenseGPL
MediaYes
Message historyYes
Multi-AccountYes
Multi-channelYes
Multi-serverYes
Notification intergationYes
OSCPNo
OTRNo
OpensourceYes
PlatformsGNU/Linux, Windows
Proxy serverYes
SASLYes
SSLYes
Scripting languageKVS (custom), Perl, Python
TLSYes
URI schemeYes
UTF-8Yes
Video chatNo
No specs yet!
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Pros
Pro Extensive documentation available
Help files and online resources show all of the feature and scripting capabilities.
Pro Portable
KVIrc does not need to be installed. It can be kept on a flash drive and run from there.
Pro Still active developement
Despite whats been said, development has been continuing at a steady pace on version 4.3.1 and more recently 4.3.2.
Pro Plenty of customization options
Pro No download needed
Pro Simple interface
Cons
No cons yet!
Con No one minding the store
Many issues not working and never updated to a working IRC.
Con Not able to use the same nickname after log-out from the client
Con No one minding the store
Many issues not working and never updated to a working IRC.