KVIrc

Used by 53 people for 890 hours, 39 minutes and 41 seconds

KVIrc is a free, opensource, multi-platform IRC client licensed under GPL
It was originally created for KDE (under GNU/Linux) by Szymon Stefanek
It supports simultaneous connections to multiple servers, SSL connections to servers, UTF-8, IPv6, the SDCC protocol & an array of other features
It's primary strength is the object orientated Kvirc scripting language - allowing both low & high-level management of irc & interface

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