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Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by fergbrain on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:38PM (#22670561)
I use it with Firefox and it works just fine
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by acidburnNSA on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:35PM (#22671304)
It works on Firefox but does not have simulcast support so whenever someone on Firefox joins, other devices have to use vastly more CPU and bandwidth. My phone dropped 50% battery in 10 minutes with a Firefox user on.

It is being worked on [1].

Firefox was a supported browser but they took it off the list in January until this issue is fixed. [2]

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...

[2] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/5017

Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by lvs on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:02AM (#22673180)
Sounds like a great DOS attack on meetings you don't want to be in. Just join from Firefox and everyone's battery dies.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by Naac on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:41PM (#22670575)
What version of Firefox? What OS?

Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.

Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by Fice on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:08PM (#22670735)
Firefox 74.0 on Fedora works.

AFAIK Firefox on GNU/Linux uses Gstreamer. Maybe you need to install gstreamer codec packages.

Update: Firefox switched to FFmpeg and removed Gstreamer support some time ago. I have FFmpeg installed from rpmfusion, but I don't know if that's relevant to WebRTC and Jitsi.

Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by renaudg on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:54PM (#22699864)
Looks like 2020 is still not the "year of Linux on the desktop"

(from a desktop Linux user years 1996-2004)

Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by dontdieych on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:00PM (#22670679)
Arch linux Firefox Nightly 76

Works fine though not tested mic(muted on system).

Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by monksy on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:51PM (#22670638)
Firefox stable /Linux. Video works.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by lytedev on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:43PM (#22670586)
Firefox preview on my phone in desktop mode worked FWIW.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by skylerwshaw on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:31PM (#22670885)
If that's on iOS, you're not actually using Firefox since it uses Apple's Webkit.
Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by surround on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:04AM (#22671774)
Firefox preview is only on android.

iOS doesn’t support videoconferencing in the browser - you have to download the app.

Re:Jitsi Meet: An open source alternative to Zoom by trthomps on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:58PM (#22670673)
Works for me, firefox-nightly (76) on Linux.