I once again don't have a good solution for 'how do I email a large file' but https://webwormhole.io/ is useful and simple, particularly for sending something big to someone you're video chatting with.
What happened to Firefox Send?
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Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#12This 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.
According to the press release, it was taken offline temporarily and after that they decided to do it permanently.
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#13....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
Does magic wormhole do firewall poking or just pass traffic through a 3rd party host? I couldn’t tell exactly what happens if the direct connection doesn’t work.
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#14For transferring large files between machines that don’t necessarily have the same clients installed I find file.pizza quite convenient.
My understanding is it basically loads a JavaScript BitTorrent client and let’s you transfer using that protocol, so both ends needs to be online, but there is no file size limit, and good support on flaky connections.
There’s a few services like this, but I always find file.pizza to be the one that I remember the name of :)
EDIT: as other people in this thread, I am also having trouble getting file.pizza to work, in both Safari and Chrome.
Maybe it isn’t the answer it used to be.
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#15Hows firefox doing these days?
I've not really used it since it used to run out of memory every few hours, did try it again after they rewrote everything but it was really buggy with half the sites I frequent not working.
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#16....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.
python3 -m http.server
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#17....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.
yeah it's not hard hard problem, but sometimes it's like "oh this computer is Windows and this is macOS or somehting" and I don't want to spend 50 minutes on debugging things
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Magic wormhole is your friend
Does magic wormhole do firewall poking or just pass traffic through a 3rd party host? I couldn’t tell exactly what happens if the direct connection doesn’t work.
>The wormhole send file mode shares the IP addresses of each client with the other (inside the encrypted message), and both clients first attempt to connect directly. If this fails, they fall back to using the transit relay.
From https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html...
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#19See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24508880
Re: What happened to Firefox Send?
#20Hows firefox doing these days? I've not really used it since it used to run out of memory every few hours, did try it again after they rewrote everything but it was really buggy with half the sites I frequent not working.
I have used it as my main browser for the last 3 years with zero problems. Fast. No memory issues.