Opera Version 7.50 came out the other day - after much salivating on the part of most of its users.

One of the new features is the integrated chat client - we've seen this before with other browsers, but Opera is and always will be a very nice UI.

They haven't dropped the ball this time either. While feature lite, lacking scripting support and quite a few other things mirc users love, Opera is something that no other IRC client has done well. Its completely customisable in the looks department.

With a much more functional relationship between a contact on IRC, their information (address book) and an email client, you have something that's more communal that an IM but has stored messages and so forth. Sure beats the hell out of a memoserv.

Basically, I'm hooked - I'm just wondering what other people
's thoughts and experiences are in relation to Opera's new IRC client vs mIRC.