ChatZilla News

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:00 EST

Wednesday, 15 Nov 2017: With the release of Firefox 57 (Firefox Quantum), it is no longer possible for ChatZilla to work as an extension in Firefox. We would like to convert ChatZilla to a WebExtension but at this time there are a number of WebExtension limitations which we cannot reasonably overcome at this time.

We would all like to thank the Firefox users which have used ChatZilla throughout the years.

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Fri, 19 Dec 2014 00:00:00 EST

Friday, 19 Dec 2014: As we come to the end of another year, we've got another small update for ChatZilla (0.9.91.1) to ensure the best compatibility with upcoming Firefox releases. We hope you enjoy it!

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Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST

Sunday, 18 Dec 2011: It's been a while since the last update, but we've fixed a bunch of bugs, put the website on GitHub and updated the FAQ.

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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST

Saturday, 26 Dec 2009: An introduction to ChatZilla has been added to the website, with labeled screenshots and explanations to help people get started.

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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Saturday, 21 Nov 2009: ChatZilla's codebase has recently been moved into a Mercurial repository hosted by Mozilla at http://hg.mozilla.org/chatzilla. Anyone working against the source code should update to use this instead of the CVS directory, which will no longer be updated.

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Wednesday, 24 Dec 2008: It's been ages since we gave you some news so, as a little holiday surprise, here's an updated website. All the usual suspects are still here, although the FAQ has had some work done to it. We hope you like it!

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Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Tuesday, 03 Apr 2007: With the release of ChatZilla 0.9.78, many improvements have been made - some subtle, some not so. Probably the first one you will notice is that the old F-key tab switching shortcuts have been replaced with the browser's shortcuts (Alt + number on SeaMonkey and Linux Firefox, Control + number on Windows Firefox, and Command + number for Mac Firefox). The online/offline icon in the statusbar will also be easy to notice.

Less clearly visible changes include the improvements to the text munger, which will now apply inline styles (like *bold*) with more consistency. Likewise, when sending of color codes is enabled, the respective codes (%C, %B, etc.) will not be matched inside URLs, allowing them to be pasted without problems. As a final subtle change, ChatZilla can once again be loaded into a browser tab, but this is not officially supported until further work has been done.

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Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST

Thursday, 09 Feb 2006: This is just a heads-up for those of you that use the latest-and-greatest SeaMonkey or Firefox builds (usually called "nightly builds") - a change in the HTML parser rendered ChatZilla rather broken. We've already fixed the code, but until a new official release is out, you'll need to fetch a nightlyChatZilla build.

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Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST

Wednesday, 11 Jan 2006: A lot has happened recently, and ChatZilla 0.9.69.2 is now out. The big issues currently are motifs not displaying properly and the timer problem - luckly we've managed to get the first one fixed (for Firefox 1.5.0.1), and are making good headway with the second one. These are both Firefox (Gecko) bugs, but they only affect us seriously, which is why we get to do all the hard work!

The other news is that starting with ChatZilla 0.9.69.2, 1% of all new users will be asked to enabled a "startup ping", which will send the client's version to one of our developer's servers each time it starts. Nothing except the client version, and the name and version of the host app (Firefox, Mozilla, XULRunner) is sent - certainly nothing that could identify the user - and there is the option to not send the ping. This data should help us to idenify what people are doing with ChatZilla - do they run it on older versions of Mozilla, for example, and how long they take to upgrade to the newest release. We should also be able to estimate the number of active users, which is much more useful that the simple "download count" we currently have.

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Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:00:00 EDT

Saturday, 30 Oct 2004: ChatZilla 0.9.66 includes a new version of the ChatZilla plugin API - you can find more details in the bug report.

ChatZilla 0.9.66a features a new channel list dialog, accessible from File > Join Channel, Ctrl-J, or /join. The dialog lets you search for channels containing certain text in their name or topic, as well as minimum and maximum user filters. Get the latest version to try it out.