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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....
- Content was used to spread malware/illegal content
- It was not profitable
How are those two things something you find out after the fact? What was the reasoning for launching the product in the first place?
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.
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.
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.
....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.
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.…
Pro-tip: if you have uBlock Origin installed, disable all other extensions that are using EasyList, because they undermine uBO and visibly slow down the page. In Chrome too.
N.b Firefox’s built in tracking protections don’t interfere.
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python3 -m http.server
To specify the port number explicitly: python3 -m http.server 8080 (Listening on port 80 may require more privileges.)