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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by nothis on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @06:25PM (#10700594)
Hear, hear. Instead of pushing for an alternative against data vampires like Google, they push their own weird cloud services ("Firefox Sync") and... videochat? Didn't they suddenly have some weird, pop-up-by-default videochat thing in one of their recent releases?

I actually always liked the idea of a FirefoxOS. Linux style operating system alternatives could need a proper fucking GUI and general average-user-oriented design. Firefox is amazing at that for a non-profit, they could actually pull it off.

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Re:Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smart... by mgbmtl on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @09:36PM (#10701541)
"Hello" (videochat) is pretty neat, imho. You can share tabs, video/voice and chat. It's great for training users. All you have to do is send an URL, and it works in Chrome too.

It's based on HTML5, but because of how webrtc has to punch through firewalls, it uses one of their partners to initiate the connection (Telefonica?). After that it's mostly peer to peer.

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