Comment 10 for bug 304477

With dual screen monitors this causes data/productivity loss.
I often have irc on one screen and web-browser on the other.
My eyesight is reading something in the web-browser, and I may press Ctrl+L to change url to something else and I may happen to have my focus on the irc-client.

It's ok if one can scroll-up and read the backscroll history (like in gnome-terminal).

It's not ok xchat style of wiping the buffer, such that one is forced to read history logs.