Saturday, February 16, 2013

Join Mozilla Philippines at Internet Relay Chat (IRC) using Mibbit

Mibbit chat network. An online ajax IRC client that can be embedded on third party websites. A direct gateway to various IRC networks is also provided.

To Join us on IRC using Mibbit, please follow the few steps bellow.

1. Go to www.mibbit.com
2. Click Sign Up Free to register if you don't have account yet and follow the next step
If you already have an account, just click on Log In enter your account info and jump to step #5


3. Fill-up the form and click on Free Sign Up.

4. Click on Chat.

You are now ready to join on IRC.
5. Connect to Mozilla [webirc], just click the drop down menu.
6. Enter your name handle (username) to Nick: field
7. Enter the channel name you want to join in, #mozilla-ph for Mozilla Philippines channel, or #studentreps-ph for Mozilla Student Reps Philippines.
8. Click on Connect.
That's it, Your now in!!.

Tips:

You can also join multiple channels, just click on Home and repeat steps #5 - 8

Just click the name of channel to toggle between channels.






Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Join Mozilla Philippines at Internet Relay Chat (IRC) using Chatzilla

ChatZilla
A clean, easy to use and highly extensible Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client. 

How to Install ChatZilla?
1. Browse ChatZilla  Add-on page here.
2. Click Add to Firefox


3. Click Install Now

4. Click Restart Now

5. Once restarted, click on Tools > ChatZilla

6. On ChatZilla window, create or remane your name handle (username) at the bottom-left (please see image below)
7. You are now ready to join, go to IRC > Join channel
8. Click the Network drop-down menu and select moznet (for Mozilla communication server).
9. Enter channel name, mozilla-ph for Mozilla Philippines channel, or studentreps-ph for Mozilla Student Reps Philippines.
10. Click Join.
That's it You're in!!
Tips
1. If you want to open this channel once ChatZilla is started, click on  IRC> Open This Channel at Startup.

You can also join multiple channels, just repeat Steps #7 - 10 above.
Just Click the channel name to toggle between channels.