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Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by jan6 »

DarkmSparks wrote: post #15

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've never had any such problems in my life with FF... not even when opening over a thousand tabs (of course not all active at the same time, lol)... sux they removed actually useful extention format, but otherwise it's great, even if it's only on google's and cloudflare's life support, pretty much...

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by 40four »

Too bad. I really enjoyed using it while it was up. The code is open source, and they have docs on how to set it up for self hosting. I wonder if there is a chance some active forks might live on?

https://github.com/mozilla/send https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/deployment....

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by jbc1 »

rkangel wrote: post #27
jbc1 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not sure about any audits or anything they might have had, but they're not a random fly by night. Used pretty heavily by a lot of people involved in media production.

Keep in mind that if security is important, you can still self host Send.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by rvz »

akuji1993 wrote: post #29
0-_-0 wrote: 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...

Exactly. Most definitely bad actors would use this free encrypted file-sharing service. But I suspect that this wasn't even sustainable for Mozilla to begin with.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions here.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by bscphil »

rkangel wrote: post #27
jbc1 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

AFAIK they don't have a "security" approach. Files are stored on their servers unencrypted. It's a completely different situation than Firefox Send was - you need to be encrypting the files yourself if keeping your files secure from WeTransfer is important to you.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by werdnapk »

I used this service fairly often with clients to send me large files... pretty much drag and drop and send me the link to the file. I thought it was great.

I guess I'll check out some of the alternatives listed in the comments here now.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by taneq »

0-_-0 wrote: 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

This seems like a feature, not a bug. People can send things privately to you. It's important, therefore, to verify who you're talking to. Maybe instead of blaming it on the lack of server-side malware scans (which are always easily defeated) they could blame it on lack of an appropriate way to build a framework of trust between endpoints?

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by AriaMinaei »

DarkmSparks wrote: post #15

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.

Check your extensions and privacy settings. Firefox is more aggressive in blocking trackers and that does break some authentication flows that involve trackers. You can always disable some of those protections to get the website to work, though I haven't had to do that in ages.

Other than that, Firefox on the Mac is consistently easier on the fans than Chrome, and unlike Chrome, I almost never get runaway processes.

Web pages are also as snappy as Chrome. If a page feels slow, I often open it in Chrome to compare, just out of curiosity. It used to be that Chrome would struggle less with these pages, but FF seems to have caught up in the past year or so.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by sdan »

40four wrote: post #32

Too bad. I really enjoyed using it while it was up. The code is open source, and they have docs on how to set it up for self hosting. I wonder if there is a chance some active forks might live on? https://github.com/mozilla/send https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/deployment....

Tried self hosting the day it came out. Had no luck, but i'm sure its possible given the docs.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

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Post by tpetry »

wodenokoto wrote: post #14

For 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 t…

Has been shared a lot on hn and i always find it funny that it is simply not working for me. I can't even transfer files between tabs in a single browser nor between browsers on the same host.
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