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What happened to Firefox Send?

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Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#82

I really don't understand it. - 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?

That does seem incredibly naive. Maybe the problem is not so much that it was used to spread malware/illegal content but that it failed to reach mainstream adoption and as such was mainly used to host malware/illegal content that would be rejected by other hosts, while not generating a lot of good publicity and new users for Firefox?

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#84
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.

If you speak to Microsoft, it means "Stuff that isn't Microsoft software".

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#85
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....

Tresorit has the same functionality: https://send.tresorit.com/

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#86
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....

resilio too

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#87
post #64
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....

We still have Magic Wormhole though and it's awesome! (at least for techies) https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html

Yeah for streaming transfers wormhole is great.

Also check out the the go port https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william (compatible with the original) and https://webwormhole.io/ (not compatible I think)

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#88
post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We still have Magic Wormhole though and it's awesome! (at least for techies) https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html

Magic Wormhole is awesome. I've recently come across croc and like that too: https://github.com/schollz/croc/

Hmmm. Several of the listed feature seem like valuable improvements over Magic Wormhole. That leads me to think that maybe several people should go to the bother of an IETF working group so everybody's platform gets at least a baseline interoperable thing in this class (PAKE driven single file transfer) like with TLS or SecSH, rather than all having their own preferred option that's incompatible.

Re: What happened to Firefox Send?

#90
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.

They gotta figure out a way to bring in revenue with safe/private browsing and email then.
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