Is there any way to not show/load all the smileys in the chat?

Like in the forums, you have a show all button, but in the shat all smileys are loaded, and that takes some time.

+1 for this option please.

I wondered what the 400+ items were that the browser status bar showed as loading, until I realised they were all the smilies!

It's a challenging technical limitation right now. If we don't pull ALL smilies, then only the ones we pulled will parse.

Hmmm, something of a dilemma then!

I'll leave it to your best judgment. :)