Re:Remove Firefox Hello from FF49
by detaro on Saturday July 30, 2016 @09:02AM
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I'm not convinced Hello should be in Firefox myself, but:
One of the newer features of Hello is tab sharing, which is niche but clever, and needs some sort of browser integration.
People use their browser (through webapps) for chat, mail, etc anyways, instead of using dedicated applications, so there doesn't seem to be much purity in that regard. And Hello is mostly build on web-tech the browser already has to support. Putting it there makes it more likely for people to quickly try it, and learn that browsers now can do cool new things with WebRTC.
One of the newer features of Hello is tab sharing, which is niche but clever, and needs some sort of browser integration.
People use their browser (through webapps) for chat, mail, etc anyways, instead of using dedicated applications, so there doesn't seem to be much purity in that regard. And Hello is mostly build on web-tech the browser already has to support. Putting it there makes it more likely for people to quickly try it, and learn that browsers now can do cool new things with WebRTC.