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= Connect to the Mozilla IRC server=
You could connect to server using setting settings below.
Protocol: IRC;
Server URL: irc.mozilla.org;
Port: 6697;
SSL Connection: Checked;
Server Password: [blank];
Chat Server Port for users of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716814 mobile carriers that block IRC (e.g. Verizon)] : 8443
Nickname: Your_IRC_nickname
Real Name: Your Name
= Channels =
===Join some channels right now!===
Being new to IRC can be intimidating. Mozilla's IRC channels are very friendly and welcoming but some of them are geared to teams trying to get things done where others are more relaxed and open to new folks giving IRC or other Mozilla tools a try.
#mozillians - meet other Mozilla project folks all over the world
#newbies - kind of self-explanatory, right?
#introduction - a place to get started and be welcoming to new contributors
#sf,#toronto - remote office's water-cooler hotspot for socializing and planning lunch
==Need General Help with IRC?==
If you're able to connect to IRC and join channels, try asking for help in [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/introduction #introduction], [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillians #mozillians], [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/newbies #newbies], [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/seneca #seneca] or [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/coding #coding]. The folks who hang out in those channels will be happy to help.
You can also get help from IRC by doing:
/help
This will give you a list of all the IRC commands and then you can do /help [command] to get info on that particular command.
<pre>
Example:
/help msg
IRC returns:
MSG [-<server tag>] [-channel | -nick] <targets> <message>
Sends a message to a nick or a channel.
Usually this is used for sending private messages to other persons.
Examples:
/MSG friend Hi, what's up?
</pre>
You can also visit [http://irchelp.org irchelp.org] to learn about how IRC works, or find a client you can use to connect to the chat server.
/!\ '''If you're using ChatZilla,''' note that <tt>/help</tt> is a ChatZilla command which gets you a ChatZilla answer. In ChatZilla, <tt>/commands</tt> returns the list of all known commands (including the aliases you defined yourself), and <tt>/help ''command''</tt> (without the slash before ''command'') gives you help on ''/command''. These are usually enough, but you <u>can</u> get help '''from the server''' when using ChatZilla, by using <tt>/quote help</tt> or (on the Mozilla network) <tt>/helpop</tt>
==How to ask questions on IRC==
* Join a question-friendly channel like [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/introduction #introduction], [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillians #mozillians], [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/newbies #newbies], [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/seneca #seneca] or [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/coding #coding].
* Ask away! You don't have to ask permission to ask first. It is better to just blurt out your question, even though you don't know if anyone is paying attention.
* Leave your IRC client open if nobody answers right away. Most of the folks on IRC do not spend all day watching their IRC client. They just leave it open while they're doing other things. It might be an hour before the right person notices your question. When answering someone's question, especially if there's a delay, the nick of the questioner should be used in the answer so that you'll see a highlighted line with their response. (eg: "lsblakk: the answer is 42")
* Be prepared to ask in several places. Very often the first response to a question is, "I don't know, but you should ask that question in #developers or #devtools or #jsapi or any of a hundred other special-purpose channels. Over time, you'll get a better sense of which questions to ask where, but to start with, it's always OK to ask in #introduction.
* Remember to be courteous. Don't repeat your question every time someone new enters the room. Don't individually ask everybody in the room if they know the answer. Don't type <code>helllooooooooo</code>. And if someone is rude to you, please do the rest of us a favor and respond politely anyway.
==Commonly Used Mozilla IRC Channels==
There are many different [https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC irc channels] for various topics. If you have ChatZilla, you can just click the provided links below to join that particular channel. For other clients, connect to server irc.mozilla.org and type /join channelname, replacing channelname with the name of the channel (including the leading "#"). All channels use English unless otherwise specified.
===Development and Planning===
These channels are frequently used for discussions regarding development and planning of Firefox and Thunderbird.
====Project Channels====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/firefox #firefox] - Firefox project discussion and end-user help. ''Another official #firefox channel is maintained on the [ircs://irc.freenode.net/firefox Freenode] network)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/accessibility #accessibility] - Discussion about accessibility in Mozilla applications - developers and end users welcome
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/addons #addons] - End user support for add-ons, extensions, and themes
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/addon-reviewers #addon-reviewers] - Support for add-on reviews
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/amo #amo] - Development of the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) website
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/balrog #balrog] - Balrog (Application Update Service) project discussion.
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/bmo #bmo] - Bugzilla.Mozilla.Org discussion (mainly on #bugzilla below)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/bugzilla #bugzilla] - Bugzilla project discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/calendar #calendar] - Calendar project and Lightning. ''This addon is for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey while the freestanding Sunbird isn't actively developed.''
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/chatzilla #chatzilla] - Discussion about ChatZilla, the IRC client extension
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/firefoxstudents #firefoxstudents] - [[StudentAmbassadors|Student Ambassadors]] main channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/instantbird #instantbird] - Instantbird project discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/js #js] - Discussion about JavaScript programming
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/l10n #l10n] - Discussion about localization (l10n) of Mozilla applications
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mdn #mdn] - Discussion about developer documentation
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mdndev #mdndev] - Discussion about development of the documentation web site (Kuma platform)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillazine #mozillazine] - Community for Users, Web Authors, and Testers; go here if you need help
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozdev #mozdev] - Discussion of and support for free project hosting at mozdev.org
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozwebqa #mozwebqa] - Home of Mozilla's web-testing efforts
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/nightingale #nightingale] - Nightingale project discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/nightly #nightly] - Home of the Firefox [[Nightly|Nightly]] community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/qa #qa] - Mozilla QA Community of users and testers dedicated to improving the quality of Firefox and other Mozilla applications
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/remo #remo] - [[ReMo|Mozilla Reps]] main channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/remo-dev #remo-dev] - Discussion about webdev and planning of next Mozilla Reps web properties
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/rust #rust] - General discussion about the Rust programming language
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/rust-beginners #rust-beginners] - Discussion for beginners of the Rust programming language
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/rust-gamedev #rust-gamedev] - Computer graphics and game development with Rust
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/rust-internals #rust-internals] - Rust compiler and library development
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/rust-osdev #rust-osdev] - Operating system development with Rust
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/seamonkey #seamonkey] - Community project to revive the bundled application suite (The main channel is now [ircs://chat.freenode.net/seamonkey at Freenode].)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/servo #servo] - Development of a research web browser in Rust
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/songbird #songbird] - Songbird project discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/sumo #sumo] - [[Support|Mozilla Support]] main channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/sync #sync] - Discussion of [[CloudServices/Sync|Firefox Sync]], including self-hosting
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/testpilot #testpilot] - Discussion about the [[Test Pilot]] project prototyping new features in Firefox.
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/themedev #themedev] - Discussion about theme development
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/thunderbird #thunderbird] - Thunderbird project discussion and end-user help
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/tb-support-crew #tb-support-crew] - for Thunderbird support meta discussion NOT for Thunderbird support;
** ''informal'' companion IRC channel to the [[Thunderbird/tb-support-crew|tb-support-crew mailing list]]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/tb-qa #tb-qa] - QA Community of users and testers dedicated to improving the quality of Thunderbird
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/transvision #transvision] - Transvision (l10n QA tool in PHP) project discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/webextensions #webextensions] - Webextensions addons and API dev
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/webcompat #webcompat] - Home of Mozilla's [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility Web compatibility effort]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/webtools #webtools] - Bonsai, LXR, Tinderbox, and Mozbot project discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/womoz #womoz] - Women & Mozilla Discussion channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/xul #xul] - Discussion about the XUL interface specification language
====General Discussion====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/contributors #contributors] - A offtopic channel for all contributors to chat in and discuss their projects with each other (although this channel still exists, discussion has moved to [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillians #mozillians])
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/developers #developers] - general Firefox and Gecko development discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/planning #planning] - discussion of upcoming Firefox and Gecko branch and trunk releases
====Specific Areas====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/airmozilla #airmozilla] - discussion around https://air.mozilla.org/
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/ateam #ateam] - Automation & Tools development discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/audio #audio] - development discussion for audio specifically
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/webmaker #badges] - discussion and support channel for the Mozilla Open Badges project
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/bluetooth #bluetooth] - development discussion for bluetooth specifically
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/build #build] - The build system - make/autoconf etc
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/ci #ci] - discussion about Continuous Integration infrastructure at Mozilla (formerly Release Engineering)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/content #content] - development discussion for DOM code
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/devtools #devtools] - development discussion for Firefox DevTools
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/e10s #e10s] - development discussion for Electrolysis
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/fistbump #fistbump] - visual design for both products and marketing; copywriting
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/focus #focus] - Focus mobile browser development discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/fx-team #fx-team] - Firefox front-end development discussion and team channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/fxa #fxa] - Firefox Accounts development and support channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/fxos #fxos] - Firefox OS development
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/gfx #gfx] - development discussion for graphics, widget and OS-specific code
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/identity #identity] - Persona and BrowserID protocol discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/jsapi #jsapi] - development discussion for the JavaScript engine
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/jsctypes #jsctypes] - discussion and support for js-ctypes development
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/labs #labs] - discussion of development of Mozilla Labs projects
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/layout #layout] - development discussion for layout code
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/macdev #macdev] - OSX developers
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/maildev #maildev] - Thunderbird development channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/media #media] - development discussion for audio/video and related topics like WebRTC
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/memshrink #memshrink] - development discussion about memory consumption
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mobile #mobile] - Firefox mobile development discussion
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/necko #necko] - development discussion for the networking code
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/newslettercode #newslettercode] - community newsletter channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/power #power] - development discussion about power consumption
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/push #push] - Push server and DOM API development channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/seamonkey #seamonkey] - SeaMonkey development channel (The main channel is now [ircs://chat.freenode.net/seamonkey at Freenode].)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/security #security] - security discussions and public channel for all Security teams
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/services-dev #services-dev] - Cloud Services discussion channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/telemetry #telemetry] - Telemetry development channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/ur #ur] - discussion of user experience research for all Mozilla projects
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/ux #ux] - discussion of visual and interactive user experience design for all Mozilla projects
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/videol10n #videol10n] - making/translating subtitles for Mozilla related videos
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/webdev #webdev] - the web development group's channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/webmaker #webmaker] - discussion and support channel for Mozilla Webmaker
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/wiki #wiki] - discussion and support channel for MozillaWiki
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/windev #windev] - development discussion for Windows platforms
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/www #www] - discussion of the development of www.mozilla.org
====Specific Locations====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/atlanta #atlanta] - general chat for people in the Atlanta, GA area
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/atlanta #auckland] - general chat for people in Auckland or elsewhere in New Zealand
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/australia #australia] - general chat for the Australian Mozilla community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/bangladesh #bangladesh] - general chat for the Mozilla Bangladesh community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/berlin #berlin] - general chat for Mozilla Berlin
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/berlin #community-berlin] - general chat for the Berlin Mozilla community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/canada #canada] - general chat for the Canadian Mozilla community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/chicago #chicago] - general chat for the Mozilla Chicago community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/india #india] - general chat for the Mozilla India community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/kerala #kerala] - general chat for the Mozilla Kerala community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/london #london] - general chat for people connected to or interested in the London MozSpace
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/michigan #michigan] - general chat for the Mozillian Michigan community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/montreal #montreal] - general chat for people in Montreal, including community. Bilingual channel. (French-English)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-cm #mozilla-cm] - general chat for the Mozilla Cameroon community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.ch #mozilla.ch] - general chat for people in Switzerland
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozpdx #mozpdx] - general chat for the Mozilla Portland community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/munich #munich] - general chat for the Mozilla Munich Area community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mv #mv] - general chat for people in the Mountain View office
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/rochester #rochester] - general chat for people in the Rochester, NY area
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/sf #SF] - general chat for people in the San Francisco office
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/seattle #seattle] - general chat for people in the greater Seattle area
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/socal #socal] - general chat for people in the greater Southern California area
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/spain #spain] - general chat for people in Spain
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/tokyo #tokyo] - general chat for people in the Tokyo office and area
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/toronto #toronto] - general chat for people in the Toronto office
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/triangle #triangle] - general chat for people in the Raleigh/Durham, NC area
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/tulsa #tulsa] - general chat for people in the Tulsa area
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/uk #uk] - general chat for the Mozilla UK community
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/vancouver #vancouver] - general chat for people in the Vancouver office
====Channels in Other Languages====
=====Arabic=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/arabicmozilla #arabicmozilla]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-algeria #mozilla-algeria]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-eg #mozilla-eg]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillatunisia #mozillatunisia]
=====Azerbaijani=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillaz #mozillaz]
=====Bangladesh=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/#bangladesh #bangladesh]
=====Brazilian Portuguese=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/developers-br #developers-br]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/firefox-br #firefox-br]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-br #mozilla-br]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/openwebapps-br #openwebapps-br]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/sumo-br #sumo-br]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/webmaker-br #webmaker-br]
=====Bulgarian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-bg #mozilla-bg]
=====Catalan=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-cat #mozilla-cat]
=====Chinese=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/china #china]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-taiwan #mozilla-taiwan]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/taipei-platform #taipei-platform]
=====Croatian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/croatia #croatia]
=====Czech=====
* currently none, see [[L10n:Teams:cs|this page]] to know how to reach us
=====Danish=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.dk #mozilla.dk]
=====Dutch=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.nl #mozilla.nl]
=====Esperanto=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/Mozilla-eo #Mozilla-eo]
=====Finnish=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.fi #mozilla.fi]
=====French=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozfr #mozfr] Main channel for community members work
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/frenchmoz #frenchmoz] Main channel for Francophone community chat
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/L10n-fr #L10n-fr] Main channel for French localization (Telegram invite link available in channel topic)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/L10n-fr #SUMO-fr] Main channel for ''only'' French SUMO localization discussions ([https://t.me/joinchat/A7h94Q_P6nP9PpKx7GKKDg mirror on Telegram])
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/devfr #devfr] Main channel for developers (both webdev and platform)
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/politiques #politiques] Channel for Open Policy & Advocacy discussions
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/support-fr #support-fr] Technical support
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/xulfr #xulfr] Historically XUL technology channel
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/rust-fr #rust-fr] Rust language channel
=====German=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/de #de]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/chatzilla.de #chatzilla.de]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/firefox.de #firefox.de]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/firefoxOS.de #firefoxOS.de]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.de #mozilla.de]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/thunderbird.de #thunderbird.de]
=====Greek=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/athens #athens]
=====Hebrew=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.il #mozilla.il]
=====Indonesia=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/idmoz #idmoz]
=====Italian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/developers-it #developers-it]
=====Japanese=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/firefox-jp #firefox-jp (iso-2022-jp)]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/japan #japan (UTF-8)]
=====Korean=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillakr #mozillakr]
=====Lithuanian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-lt #mozilla-lt]
=====Marathi=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/marathi #marathi]
=====Myanmar=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillamm #mozillamm]
=====Norwegian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.no #mozilla.no]
=====Persian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/iranmozilla #iranmozilla]
=====Polish=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/aviarypl #aviarypl]
=====Portuguese (Portugal)=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-portugal #mozilla-portugal]
=====Philippines=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-ph #mozilla-ph]
=====Romanian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/romania #romania]
=====Russian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-ru #mozilla-ru]
=====Serbian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.sr #mozilla.sr]
=====Sinhala=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.lk #mozilla.lk]
=====Slovak=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-sk #mozilla-sk]
=====Slovenia=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/slozilla #slozilla]
=====Spanish=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-hispano #mozilla-hispano]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-mexico #mozilla-mexico]
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-venezuela #mozilla-venezuela]
=====Swedish=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla.se #mozilla.se]
=====Tunisian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozillatunisia #mozillatunisia]
=====Ukrainian=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/mozilla-ua #mozilla-ua]
=====Wolof=====
* [ircs://irc.mozilla.org/l10n-wo #l10n-wo]
== Connection Notice ==
When you connect to our IRC server, you will get portscanned from 63.245.208.159, 63.245.212.23, or 63.245.216.214. This is an unfortunate but necessary step in order to cut down on the number of viruses and other malicious users attempting to communicate via our IRC servers. The portscan is checking for common ports used by known viruses and open proxy servers to ensure that your machine is not infected before allowing you to remain connected. By connecting to our IRC servers, you agree to have your computer portscanned by our server. If you don't like this, don't connect.
== Privacy Information ==
Our servers do not keep records of any of your conversations, but anyone in the channels you are in might do so and publish those conversation logs (and some channels are actively logged by users on those channels). If you have questions about this, ask the other users in the channel you are concerned about (every channel has its own culture). In general, you should assume that anything you say on IRC that is not in a private message will be recorded and possibly published somewhere, and even then you are depending on your trust that the person you are sending the message to will not to share it.
==Quotes Database==
Sometimes people say silly or memorable things on our server. We memorialize them forever on the [http://quotes.burntelectrons.org/ quotes database] managed by Tim De Pauw.
==Persistent Connection==
If you have access to a host that is always on you can run an irc session on it and connect/disconnect from that session without losing everything. This allows you to keep scrollback, stay present in channels when you are away, and have logs of what happens when you're not around. In this example I will use people.mozilla.org as my host. If someone can add good instructions for setting up a proxy in another way, please do. This tutorial will assume that you have an account on people.mozilla.org (or another server where you can ssh to it and run both 'screen' and 'irssi'), details on how to set this up are below. An alternative is [http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC ZNC].
===On the server===
<pre>
ssh lsblakk@people.mozilla.org
## create a bin dir
mkdir bin
cd bin
vim irc
## paste the following two lines (without the initial spaces) in the empty file:
#!/bin/bash
screen -raAd
## now hit ESC followed by :x and enter to save this file
## make the file executable
chmod -c a+x irc
## Start your irssi session:
screen irssi
</pre>
====Add Network/Server====
Replace <nick> and <password> with your registered Mozilla IRC nickname and password.
The following creates an autoconnect to irc.mozilla.org under the name Mozilla.
<pre>
/SERVER ADD -ssl -auto -network Mozilla irc.mozilla.org 6697
/NETWORK ADD -nick <nick> -user <nick> -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv identify <password>;wait 2000" Mozilla
</pre>
====Add Channels (optional)====
Replace <nowiki>#channel</nowiki> with the channel you'd like to add. <pass> is an optional field, used when an IRC channel requires a password.
<pre>
/CHANNEL ADD -auto #channel Mozilla <pass>
</pre>
...repeat till satisfied!
====Good practices====
<pre>
/HILIGHT <nick>
</pre>
'''more soon'''
===References===
* [http://www.irssi.org/documentation/startup Irssi Startup HOWTO]
* [http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi/ Irssi Basics]
