I only experience this issue intermittently and I do not know how to replicate it. I simply attempt to open a link, and then nothing happens. If I restart mIRC it works fine again. I also do not really use scripts or addons. I had one item in the Remote settings that I've just removed seeing as I do not use it anymore, and I do have an addon but it is unloaded 99% of the time. I've never experienced this problem until lately, and I've been using mIRC for years now. I don't see how a script I haven't used in forever is suddenly causing problems when it never did prior to the recent version change.