bookmarking IRC channels and killfile-ing users (Score 2)

Stuart wrote:
>
> The reason I hated Netscape including AIM wasn't
> because of the bloat [was] because of the fact
> that it only spoke a single proprietary
> protocol. Having a generic client which speaks
> all protocols is IMO a great thing.

Agreed. I'm a user of IRC (check out the mozilla
channel), and it suffers from being split into
a number of networks, each of which has its own
set of servers, of varying reliability.

If making Mozilla the standard interface to
interchangable IRC modules would allow some
unity, this would significantly increase the
usability of the whole thing.

In particular, it would be of benefit to be
able to bookmark or email URLs for IRC such as:

irc://-dalnet/
irc://-effnet/#help
irc://-alternet/#gnudiscuss?nick=Aristotle
irc://irc.dal.net:7000/#foobar

IE the network "-dalnet" could be looked up to
find your preferred server. default nicks could
be stored in the browser (possibly in a way that
allow the nick to change with the irc network
and channel name - especially useful given that
the maximum nick length varies with network).