Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:30:45 +0200 From: Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net> To: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox hello as alternative to skype? Message-ID: <m24mjwfz3e.fsf@fstaals.net> In-Reply-To: <CAKYr3zyh8B6-nPgzk_uWUg-YVn=35YPJJwbQMx6n4kN-FFfLpA@mail.gmail.com> (Outback Dingo's message of "Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:17:16 %2B1000") References: <201508181008.t7IA8v97018853@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> <m2io8chj11.fsf@fstaals.net> <CAKYr3zyh8B6-nPgzk_uWUg-YVn=35YPJJwbQMx6n4kN-FFfLpA@mail.gmail.com>
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Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Frank Staals <frank@fstaals.net> wrote: > >> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> writes: >> >> > I'm having no luck getting any of the skype ports to work. >> > In the meantime I found that Firefox Hello is advertised >> > as an alternative: >> > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello/ >> > >> > I still cannot find the "Firefox Hello Button" on my firefox-40.0_4,1. >> > Has anybody used Firefox Hello? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > Anton >> >> I've used it a few times. It actually seems to work quite well. I've >> used only the 'no-logins just share the url to video-chat' >> functionality. So then if you want to start a conversation you >> (obviously) do need a way to communicate the url beforehand. Usually via >> some other IM service :). >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> >> - Frank >> > > > Just use tox .... see https://tox.chat/ I also tried (q)Tox. But I did not manage to get audio/video chat working reliably over the internet. I kept having connection issues. They warn that it is still under heavy development, so maybe not that strange. It seems very promising though :) Regards, -- - Frank
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