[LINK] Firefox Browser, full HTTP/2 support

[Stephen Loosley]

Understand your point Frank, but how is this very different from Chrome and Google+ Hangouts, or Windows OS and Microsoft Skype? And of these three, Google, Microsoft or Mozilla, which would you prefer to trust with your video comunications?

---- On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:25:00 +1100 Kim Holburn  wrote ---- 

>Just what you want eh? The browser you are using to browse the web, to do business, banking, in control of your camera and microphone. 
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>On 2015/Feb/25, at 2:43 PM, Stephen Loosley wrote: 
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>>> 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 
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>> 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 
>> 
>> 
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