[LINK] Firefox Browser, full HTTP/2 support

[Stephen Loosley]

> From: kim.holburn at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:53:16 +1100
>
> Not everyone thinks HTTP/2 and SPDY is such a good thing.  It has privacy issues among others.

Maybe a little harsh matey?  HTTP/2 is the latest Internet Engineering Steering Group spec
we have, including regarding privacy. Large numbers of people have contributed to HTTP/2
but the most 
active participants are volunteer engineers from projects like Firefox, Twitter, Microsoft's HTTP stack, Curl and Akamai, as well as HTTP implementers in languages like Python, Ruby, NodeJS. https://github.com/http2/http2.github.io/blob/master/faq/index.md

So it's been developed by volunteers, and then incorporated into Firefox also by volunteers.

The alternative is going back to Google's SPDY, which even Google is ditching for HTTP/2 in this month's and all future versions of Chrome. And finally all web browsers now use HTTP/2 over secure TLS implementations and so sessions are much more secure than previous HTTP implementations. Sure, it's not perfect, but it is free, and, the volunteers are certainly trying.

In terms of the Mozilla Hello Conversations Beta resource, it'll be interesting to see how this Skype-like feature takes off.  It could be a real bonus, the first global communications system built directly into browsers. I  believe this version of Conversations also shares Wi-Fi and the signals of mobile 
devices for enhanced geolocation services and provides support for context aware applications. And, this Firefox Hello free video-chat service also allows users 
to talk to contacts on Firefox, Chrome or Opera. Apparently in future Mozilla is adding more features to the Conversations live video chat project such as screen sharing and web-based collaboration. 

So altogether, a pretty fair open source effort by thousands of world volunteers one might say?

Cheers,
Stephen