axod's too shy to post his own good news, but even bigger (in my opinion) news: mibbit will become the default irc:// handler in Firefox. I have to admit that irc:// links are pretty rare, now, mostly due to how unreliably they work. Big usability win for Firefox.
See http://informationisart.com/stas/mibbit-as-an-irc-protocol-h...
Good work mibbit, axod.