Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox?

Re:Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox? by db48x on Saturday December 09, 2017 @09:14PM (#15889436)

There is no technical reason, Google has simply decided that they won't support Firefox.

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Re:Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox? by Sylos on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:35AM (#15890275)

Hey now, they're "actively working to develop a solution that will enable Hangouts to work in Firefox without a [NPAPI] plugin" [0].

These things take time, you know. Especially with the limited resources of Google, Mozilla not already having announced the deprecation of NPAPI plugins two years ago [1] and there not already being a web standard, mainly pushed by Google, that enables video and audio calling for every modern browser out there [2].

[0]: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/02/google-hangouts...

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plu...

[2]: https://webrtc.org/

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Re:Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox? by robert_foss on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:01AM (#15890745)

That's some hugh quality snark right there. Thank you good sir.

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Re:Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox? by bagacrap on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:43AM (#15891324)

It's hard to understand who you're trying to blame here, but it sounds like a classic case of the "two ways of doing a thing" (the deprecated way and the one that doesn't work yet).

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Re:Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox? by sitkack on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:34AM (#15890129)

Seems unGoogley.

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