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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by daenney on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @02:48PM (#13933589)
It works fine in every browser, but you might need to download a small plugin if you're not on Chrome due to WebRTC being a standard but not a standard.

Regardless of your browser, it'll heat your system up so you can fry an egg or broil a steak.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by cortesoft on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:36PM (#13934051)
Not in FireFox anymore. They sent alerts for a long time saying FireFox was losing support for hangouts, and now it doesn't work at all.
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by daenney on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:40PM (#13934703)
True. But temporary: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/02/google-hangouts....

Ironically that's being caused by WebRTC not having compatible enough implementations across all major browsers (and as an aside being disproportionally difficult to debug). Otherwise they would've just dropped the plugin and be done with it much earlier. Though I'm surprised they didn't act earlier.

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by roca on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:35PM (#13944572)
The biggest WebRTC interop problem is due to Chrome declining to implement the "Unified Plan" for multiple streams ... a plan they agreed to implement when the spec was worked out. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=465349
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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by 0x6c6f6c on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:12PM (#13933802)
Yeah the Hangouts website is my main gripe with it. Great service for talking with friends and family. Absolutely horrible performance on their site.

Something to do with WebGL being used during background transitions would drop the performance of my graphics card into the dirt. Games running at the same time would incur a frame drop of 90% for the 5 seconds Hangouts is merely changing a PICTURE..

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Re:Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-... by tajen on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:53PM (#13934214)
Try https://appear.in . I have no affiliation, I just find the idea of not logging in awesome.
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