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What happened to Firefox Send?

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Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#2
....oh.

I have used it a few times in the past for the classic task "move large file between two computers that are next to each other, how the hell do I do this simply", but yeah, I can't see how that would be cost-effective for Firefox.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#4
This was really funny because I tried to use it for the first time just after it was taken down, but before the announcement. At that time, it loaded a page that made it seem like it was just offline temporarily.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#5
post #2

....oh. I have used it a few times in the past for the classic task "move large file between two computers that are next to each other, how the hell do I do this simply", but yeah, I can't see how that would be cost-effective for Firefox.

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Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#7
Oh dear. A stunning failure of another Firefox product which was hyped to hot air: [0]

Looks like Mozilla really needs to find something to actually be more competitive than their current offerings of 'VPNs', 'File Sharing' and 'Web Browsers'.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19367850

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#8
post #2

....oh. I have used it a few times in the past for the classic task "move large file between two computers that are next to each other, how the hell do I do this simply", but yeah, I can't see how that would be cost-effective for Firefox.

Between Unix-based machines on the same network my go-to is netcat.

  receiver$ nc -l 2000 > file
  sender$ nc receiver 2000 
I usually check MD5 sums when I’m done.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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post #2

....oh. I have used it a few times in the past for the classic task "move large file between two computers that are next to each other, how the hell do I do this simply", but yeah, I can't see how that would be cost-effective for Firefox.

Magic wormhole is your friend

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#10
post #2

....oh. I have used it a few times in the past for the classic task "move large file between two computers that are next to each other, how the hell do I do this simply", but yeah, I can't see how that would be cost-effective for Firefox.

Easy ways to copy files between nearby computers:

scp The python 3 equivalent of -mSimpleHTTPServer Samba

Or maybe I’m missing something.

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