State of web browsers in 2018

Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by jcranmer on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:00PM (#18619748)

> PPS: also to add to less known evil moves by Google - their U2F websites refuse to work in Firefox, despite it supporting U2F for a long time.

The one that still sticks in my craw is that they never bothered to add support for Hangouts in Firefox. Hangouts was modified to use WebRTC in Chrome, but relied on a plugin in Firefox--despite Firefox actually implementing the relevant WebRTC features first.

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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by larrik on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:21PM (#18620018)

Hmm, I use Hangouts in Firefox...

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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by cpeterso on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:46PM (#18620830)

Hangouts supports WebRTC video in Firefox now, four years after supporting WebRTC in Chrome (2014-2018).

I've maintained a timeline of Hangouts' WebRTC support (as part of my work to track the sunsetting of NPAPI plugins, other than Flash, in Firefox that blocked Win64):

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Win64#History

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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by kenhwang on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:35PM (#18620724)

The chat or the video? The video hasn't worked in long time now.

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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by Wowfunhappy on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:56PM (#18620923)

I haven't tried Firefox, but Hangouts with video works in Safari for me.

I had to bookmark a Hangouts room URL though, which I think I opened from within GMail some time ago. If I try to just load hangouts.google.com, it won't work.

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Re:State of web browsers in 2018 by larrik on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:06PM (#18630534)

Video, although I don't have a camera (the host does, though).

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