The first thing I do on any new Firefox install is remove Pocket and Hello off the toolbar. I'm pretty sure most people do the same. In fact, I'm struggling to remember what Hello actually is...
I was about to use it as a OS-independent alternative to Skype (I'm on Linux). And I wanted to use this, also instead of facebook chat and the likes.<p>The moment they removed the contacts feature it was dead for me. Although, to be honest, it never really worked (sometimes no audio and stuff like that).<p>The idea, that I have to first email the chat URL and then I can make a conversation is like writing a letter first before doing a call. Fundamentally wrong conversation setup.
THANK-YOU, finally got rid of that stupid thing. For a while there it seemed like every new Firefox version had another stupid non-browser-related plugin that I had to go find out how to kill off before deploying to the network.
Slightly off-topic but does anyone know the status of the "Send Tab to Device" function? It is my favorite feature on Firefox for Android and it has disappeared. Not the first time this happened, either. Are they randomly adding and then removing support for this? I'm definitely not the only one affected: <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1087138" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1087138</a>.<p>I can visit the desktop version of Mozilla's add-ons site and see an extension which supposedly does this, but the 'add to Firefox' button is disabled if I visit the same link on my mobile. Bizarre.
This is great. Mozilla experimented with a new thing, it didn't take off, and they killed it. Bravo both for experimenting, and for killing it afterwards.
Hello is essentially a tiny amount of javascript that connects to the existing WebRTC infrastructure. Other services will make use of this infrastructure to provide the same functionality.<p>But the concept of having cross-platform realtime audio, video, and screensharing is very appealing.
Never used it. Didn't need it. Not sure how I would get anyone else to use it, either, as I think I'm the only one in my family/circle of friends still using Firefox.<p>Glad to be rid of it.