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What happened to Firefox Send?

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Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#21
Either Send is more long lived than I realized, or I have a very different definition of "legacy"

From the Mozilla Blog: ... we are announcing the end of life for two legacy services that grew out of the Firefox Test Pilot program: Firefox Send and Firefox Notes.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#22

Hows 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 switched to Firefox on Mac in mid 2019, no problems at all. Wish it had chrome style profiles but glad it doesn’t have chrome’s other issues.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#24
post #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

I really wish they would focus on safe/private browsing and email and stay the heck out of everything else.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#25

Hows 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.

Only my 3 machines (Windows and Linux) it's very stable and I cannot complain.

All addons I was using before the rewrite are back again or not necessary anymore because other addons replaced their functionality.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#26
post #21

Either Send is more long lived than I realized, or I have a very different definition of "legacy" From the Mozilla Blog: ... we are announcing the end of life for two legacy services that grew out of the Firefox Test Pilot program: Firefox Send and Firefox Notes.

No, you remembered correctly.

> It was launched on March 12, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Send

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#27
post #23
post #11

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.

Up to 2GB https://wetransfer.com

Thank you.

Do we trust them and their security approach? Genuine question - it was a major selling point to me that Mozilla were operating Firefox Send. I was happy to give some trust to them and their approach to encryption.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#28

Hows 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 switched to Firefox on Mac in mid 2019, no problems at all. Wish it had chrome style profiles but glad it doesn’t have chrome’s other issues.

> Wish it had chrome style profiles

Could you explain what you mean by this? Firefox does have profiles, and more than one can be active at a time. (There's also the newer containers feature which allows further compartmentalization.)

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#29
post #6

This is due to people sharing malware: https://www.techradar.com/news/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send... The content can't be scanned server-side because uploaded files are encrypted

I mean... Were they really suprised by this? An encrypted file sharing service, of course it's going to be used for sharing malware and illegal content.. I'm not sure what would've been the solution for this issue, but it was pretty clear that that was gonna happen...

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#30
post #16
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

To specify the port number explicitly:

    python3 -m http.server 8080
(Listening on port 80 may require more privileges.)
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