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Re: Firefox Hello

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Post by higherpurpose »

aroch wrote: post #4
caractacus wrote: post #2

Just what does the 'powered by Telefonica' bit mean?

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/10/16/mozilla-and-telefon... Presumably offering routing servers and transit. Plus Telefonica bought TokBox[1], whose tech powers the backend [1] https://tokbox.com/

Does this affect the end to end encryption mechanism of WebRTC (at least for Internet users)?

In other words, can Telefonica make it easy to spy on all Firefox Hello talks, or only on the browser-to-phone ones? (which is to be expected, I guess).

Re: Firefox Hello

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Post by baddox »

cjensen wrote: post #10

A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality. In my view, this is true for most values of X, including Skype, Mail, Word, Excel... To add insult to injury, there is no simple way of disabling the functionality[1]. Firefox Hello is ludicrous. [1] about:config is not a valid value of simple

> A web browser should not include X functionality, but should allow a web page to implement X functionality.

I'll agree if you amend "allow a web page to implement X" to "allow a web page or an extension to implement X."

Re: Firefox Hello

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Post by suyash »

Now the question is can you enable 'Screen sharing' utility to it? It could then be a killer app for meetings and conferences getting rid of all the expensive external software applications?

When I say screen share, I mean not just the browser's screen but the whole computer screen?

Re: Firefox Hello

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Post by suyash »

caractacus wrote: post #2

Just what does the 'powered by Telefonica' bit mean?

Now that is scary, as I don't want to give all my personal data to some random company's server in Europe? Firefox is cool with me but Telefonica, not so much.

Re: Firefox Hello

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Post by mahouse »

BSousa wrote: post #6

I saw the tag line, liked what I saw until "powered by Telefonica". Seriously, I've lived in more than half of the European countries for a while, and never ever EVER saw such a shitty internet service as in Spain over their network. Lack of service for hours every day, substandard speeds... It made me anticipate a move to Portugal by one year because of their shitty service.

That was probably years ago, because by now, they are the ones that serve more homes with FTTH technology.
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