Ok well yes if you use mRC on a 100Mhz it will be slow, I don't think it will on a fast PC. And I have proof. Right now, the web page I am looking at (this page I am typing my post in) has 38 smiley icons on it. I can scroll the window up/down, maximize/minimize, no slow down at all. If it were slow in mIRC, then it means that Khaled didn't code it correctly, because it is far from slow in IE. And in any case, I already proposed a solution to this. "Only translate N smileys in each line of text." If more than N smileys are received in a single msg, it ignores all but the first N. As for doing it in multiple lines, mIRC already has flood protection, if you choose not to enable it, don't blame us for suggesting a new feature, blame yourself for decided to disable the protection features of mIRC.