Re:Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox?
by Sylos on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:35AM
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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].
Re:Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox?
by bagacrap on Sunday December 10, 2017 @08:43AM
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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).
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/