Control: reassign -1 firefox Control: found -1 72.0.1-1 On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:45:15PM +0100, Andrew Wigglesworth wrote: > * What led up to the situation? > > I clicked on an "IRC link". ie. a irc:// style link. > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > I was offered use of a proprietary, secret code, "software as a > service" service for IRC called Mibbit ar Mibbit.com.
This is still the case in the current firefox package. > It is also a service permanently banned at Freenode. See: > http://blog.freenode.net/2009/06/new-freenode-webchat-and-why-to-use-it/ This ban is still in place - if you click to use mibbit for a freenode channel via an irc: links it fails with: syn Connections via mibbit are no longer supported on freenode. You may wish to consider using http://webchat.freenode.net instead. Further information over at http://bit.ly/19JILF syn KILL: syn. syn| [0] mmm, [1] (Facility Blocked) Even ignoring concerns about promoting non-free network services, this makes mibbit a poor default for handling irc: links. Cheers, Olly
