Support for Hello discontinued in Firefox 49

I&#x27;d rather my browser focused on being a browser.<p>And I think that&#x27;s better for the long term health of Mozilla, and Firefox, too.

The first thing I do on any new Firefox install is remove Pocket and Hello off the toolbar. I&#x27;m pretty sure most people do the same. In fact, I&#x27;m struggling to remember what Hello actually is...

I was about to use it as a OS-independent alternative to Skype (I&#x27;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 &quot;Send Tab to Device&quot; 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&#x27;m definitely not the only one affected: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1087138" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;questions&#x2F;1087138</a>.<p>I can visit the desktop version of Mozilla&#x27;s add-ons site and see an extension which supposedly does this, but the &#x27;add to Firefox&#x27; button is disabled if I visit the same link on my mobile. Bizarre.

Is it too much to hope that pocket will be next?

This is great. Mozilla experimented with a new thing, it didn&#x27;t take off, and they killed it. Bravo both for experimenting, and for killing it afterwards.

Wait it will be totally discontinued? Not even optional?<p>So basically, Hello was deemed dead from the beginning?

So is Jitsi Meet the only FOSS alternative?

Good riddance. Firefox having default plugins like this is one of the reasons i stay in v38.0

This is a shame it was the best chance to get people off Skype.

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.

the idea was great, probably no one ever used Hello because is was substantially broken.

+1 for stripping out feature bloat!

I was going to try it out -- &quot;one of these days&quot;.

I&#x27;m on 48 and don&#x27;t have that feature????

As a company, Mozilla is an open-source version of Yahoo.

Never used it. Didn&#x27;t need it. Not sure how I would get anyone else to use it, either, as I think I&#x27;m the only one in my family&#x2F;circle of friends still using Firefox.<p>Glad to be rid of it.

Yes! Thank you, The Mozilla Foundation.