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Re:Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat by jokoon on Saturday April 09, 2022 @10:25AM (#30968316)
Thunderbird supports irc?
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Re:Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat by TingPing on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:29AM (#30968873)
It's called Chatzilla, it's not great nor widely used.
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Re:Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat by aaronmdjones on Saturday April 09, 2022 @12:02PM (#30969176)
On the contrary; Thunderbird's chat has built-in IRC support which you can use without installing something like ChatZilla [1][2].

It's not very good, though, including warts such as automatically attempting an SASL login with your credentials, even if you've never registered a services account on the IRC network [3].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/LQrzpoy.png

[2] https://i.imgur.com/X8idAGl.png

[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618061

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