[ANNOUNCE] Adding Mibbit as a default IRC protocol handler for locales that want that

[Staś Małolepszy]

Hi all,

We're planning to add Mibbit as a default irc:// and ircs:// protocols
handler in 3.1. Bug 435687 is about the implementation in en-US. Once
this is done, we will be able to add it for all other localization that
will want it with Axel's scripting magic.

Mibbit is currently localized into French, German, Spanish, Dutch and
Portuguese (Brazil), but our recommendation would be to add it to your
locale even if it's not supported right now by Mibbit. It will serve
well as a demonstration of this kind of protocol handler and it will be
useful for users familiar with English. We do a similar thing with
30boxes, our en-US webcal: protocol handler. We ship with it in almost
all locales even though it's available only in English.

If you would like to have Mibbit added in your locale, please update the
whiteboard in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479030 with
your locale's code.

If you know of another IRC web-based client available for your locale
that you would like to include, please file a new bug under "Mozilla
Localizations > {your locale}" with the following summary: "[{your
locale's code}] Add {service name} to the default IRC protocol handlers."

Thanks!
Staś

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