Hi
Would someone have an idea for me (how to fix the bug) or a new IRC
client to recommand me (I am on macintosh OS9, netscape 7.02 and no, I
cant upgrade to a newer system) ?
I was previously on chatzilla.
I had what I thought a bug (I could not close tabs of personal channels).
I went to freenode to seek from help and they recommanded I upgraded my
chatzilla. Looking in the new versions, I discovered it was not a bug,
but... a non existent feature, which was fixed in most recent versions.
I hence upgraded chatzilla.
http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/chatzilla/
Now, when I start chatzilla (I later tried all versions I could find), I
have an error message, and the application is not working anymore.
I installed with pain Shadow IRC (which was the first irc I used, but is
by far less confortable to use) and contacted the chatzilla irc. I
discussed during 2 hours with Silver, one of the big guy for chatzilla.
We concluded that for some reason, I had a file missing nslFile
Protocole Handler component.
I understood that file location was changed in 2002, so it was likely
that chatzilla was looking at the new location, while my browser being
borderline 2002-2003, could still have it at the ancient location
(chatzilla does not handle "yet" the old location, but Silver said he
might do the patch for the next release).
However, the problem is that we were not able to find the file at all.
When I evaluate in the javascript window whether
Components.classes["(a)mozilla.org/network/protocol;1?name=file"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileProtocolHandler).getFileFromURLSpec
or
Components.classes["(a)mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIIOService).getFileFromURLSpec
neither of the two exist.
What is quite curious is that chatzilla was previously working on an old
version. But when I installed it, I remember quite well that the newer
version had the same bug. This suggest that the file concerned existed
then, and that older versions of chatzilla were able to manage somehow.
I entirely reinstalled my computer about 1 month ago; so might have
"lost" something ???
I already reinstalled netscape/mozilla and chatzilla entirely yesterday
night, but the file still not there.
Does that suggest any thing to someone ?
Alternatively, who has a decent and free irc client to recommand me ?
Shadow is really unconfortable to use.
Meanwhile, I think I won't be much on IRC any more. Which is somehow
problematic for communication.
Only benefit is that it will help cure my wikiholism :-)