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ChatZilla on XULRunner

Standalone Mozilla IRC Client, no browsers attached.

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ChatZilla is normally used as part of SeaMonkey, or an extension to other browsers. However, this has caused problems with custom themes and other extensions, and means you can't restart the browser without leaving IRC.

XULRunner allows you to use ChatZilla standalone, free of whatever happens to your browser.

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Installation

Windows/Linux

  1. Extract the XULRunner archive. Open a terminal window and use cd to switch to the XULRunner directory.
  2. Run xulrunner --register-global to register the install location.
  3. Run xulrunner --install-app <package>, where <package> is the path to the ChatZilla .zip file.
  4. Start ChatZilla, which is installed in Program Files or /usr/lib depending on your OS..

Mac OS X

  1. Download
  2. Install XULRunner to /Library/Frameworks/XUL.Framework.
  3. Open a terminal window and run /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/xulrunner-bin --install-app <package>, where <package> is the path to the ChatZilla .zip file.
  4. Start ChatZilla in your Applications folder.

If you need to copy over settings or scripts, use the ChatZilla command /pref profilePath to find your profile.

Updates

On Windows and Linux, XULRunner checks regularly for new ChatZilla versions. Updates are not downloaded without your permission.

You can get more information on the update process, or subscribe to my news page to hear about new versions.

Extensions

Since 0.9.71, the Extension manager can be opened from the ChatZilla menu.

I have one extension (Windows only): MinimizeToTray for ChatZilla.

Other Builds

0.9.83 is the latest available ChatZilla build. Development builds of ChatZilla will be posted here when vaguely significant changes are made.

Unstable XULRunner (trunk) || all ChatZilla builds

Source

You don't need to build Mozilla to build ChatZilla, but you do need bash, perl, and zip.

  1. Check out mozilla/extensions/irc and mozilla/config from Mozilla CVS trunk (HEAD).
  2. Apply this patch: xrmakeJ.diff.txt.
  3. Go to mozilla/extensions/irc/xpi and run bash makexpi.sh.
  4. The new zip file in the directory is the XULRunner app package.

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