FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
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Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#2It’s the third footnote. Direct link may obscure it slightly due to top bar.
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#3What are (if any) the technical blockers for Firefox to be considered on the same level of support?
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#4What are (if any) the technical blockers for Firefox to be considered on the same level of support?
If there are any (as opposed to "just" the added customer support burden), I wonder if they're the same issues that prevent Slack from allowing calls in Firefox...
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#5What are (if any) the technical blockers for Firefox to be considered on the same level of support?
At a guess, codecs seem the most likely explanation.
Firefox has a h.264 decoder, but not an encoder I think.
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#6What are (if any) the technical blockers for Firefox to be considered on the same level of support?
At a guess, codecs seem the most likely explanation. Firefox has a h.264 decoder, but not an encoder I think.
Maybe... Google Duo works in Firefox (and even Opera) though.
Important: Google Duo is available on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
At a guess, codecs seem the most likely explanation. Firefox has a h.264 decoder, but not an encoder I think.
Maybe... Google Duo works in Firefox (and even Opera) though. Important: Google Duo is available on Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Source: https://support.google.com/duo/answer/6386089
Does Duo send H.264?
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#8What are (if any) the technical blockers for Firefox to be considered on the same level of support?
If there are any (as opposed to "just" the added customer support burden), I wonder if they're the same issues that prevent Slack from allowing calls in Firefox...
As a corollary, I wonder if Slack will now implement calling functionality once Mozilla adds the necessary APIs for Apple to do its job here, which is probably very likely since I don't think Apple chose to ignore a non-Google browser on purpose.
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If there are any (as opposed to "just" the added customer support burden), I wonder if they're the same issues that prevent Slack from allowing calls in Firefox...
As a corollary, I wonder if Slack will now implement calling functionality once Mozilla adds the necessary APIs for Apple to do its job here, which is probably very likely since I don't think Apple chose to ignore a non-Google browser on purpose.
All necessary parts are there, which is why e.g. jitsi meet or Google meet work without problem.
It's more like they don't care than anything else.
Re: FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox
#10What are (if any) the technical blockers for Firefox to be considered on the same level of support?
Firefox can require more bandwidth for WebRTC calls I think, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600698
I also have some memory of asking all participants in Jitsi meetings to not use firefox, because the call would start to lag for all participants if bandwidth was an issue for the firefox users in the call. Don't know if that is still the case or not though.