Features…
- Its free and registration is optional.
- Tabbed conversation windows will give you feel of desktop clients.
- Search feature to find IRC channels using keywords. Have database of 150,000+ channels across 49 IRC networks.
- Works behind proxy. I tested it behind corporate firewall but being a plain online service it worked like a charm! 🙂
- Built-in support for translation. You can translate your messages to another language or read others message in your language.
- Pastebin support. If you are a programmer then you know how often we go to pastebin to share codes. Now you can do it right from mibbit.
- Chat widget which you can add on your website (live example below…)
Registered User get additional options…
- My channel option – To save a list of favorite channels which can be automatically joined on logon.
- Preferences – set colors, fonts, configure alerts, etc.
- Logs – All conversations can be saved. This feature will be available soon.
I personally use IRC channels when working on wordpress plugins and firefox add-ons. But I always had some problems on windows machine. I don’t like to pay for mIRC and xchat (windows version). Also chatzilla failed to impress me as it doesn’t work behind firewalls in offices & colleges.
So I guess mibbit is best for windows, specially when you want to waste your office time! 😉
Related: All in one Digsby = Messengers + Emails + Social Networks