[technology taskforce] Mozilla Firefox Hello - free video and voice calls directly from the browser

[Beran Gillen - Yahoo]

Judith since we are both Mac users, is it out for Mac yet ?

Beran 

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> On 25 Feb 2015, at 13:25, Judith Hellerstein <judith at jhellerstein.com> wrote:
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> Hi Dev,
> 
> Looking forward to trying it. We need to wait a bit to demo it as  it has not migrated to all the versions. Firefox said they are doing a gradual release so check back in a few weeks.
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> On 2/25/2015 7:29 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh wrote:
>> "Firefox Hello lets you make free video and voice calls directly from the browser. All you need are a microphone, a webcam (optional), and the latest version of Firefox to call friends who are on WebRTC-supported browsers like Firefox, Chrome, or Opera."
>> 
>> This is similar in concept to Jitsi Meet (https://meet.jit.si/) tested earlier but now integrated with Firefox so its even easier. Apparently, Mozilla is using OpenTok (https://tokbox.com/), a WebRTC platform for adding live video, voice, and messaging to websites and mobile apps. 
>> 
>> See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello/ and 
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hello-video-and-voice-conversations-online
>> 
>> Also, the screenshots and video 
>> https://videos.cdn.mozilla.net/uploads/FirefoxHello/firefoxhello_intro_english.mp4
>> shows Firefox on MacOS X so this should work with MacOS X and I suspect 
>> Android
>> 
>> Dev Anand
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