Link clicking seems to be buggy in Minecraft 1.7 and up anyways, might think of this once I get to the chat improvements in 1.8.

just adding a +1 to this bug, i know you are working hard but is there any luck finding a fix?
also love the new gui and features on alpha 2.8.45

I'll have a look at this bug specifically tomorrow.

I had a look and it's pretty obvious why it's not working, but pretty hard for me to fix, as that stuff is located in Vanilla code with no real way for me to hook in. It is clearly not related to EiraIRC, it's just Mojang apparently completely forgetting about user-typed chat links.

I have a fix in mind (though it's really more of an ugly workaround) and I'll add it a bit later once I've recovered from my Mojang-Code shock.