firefox hello as alternative to skype?

[Carlos J Puga Medina]

> Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Frank Staals <
> frank at fstaals.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at 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 :)
> 

I'm using net-im/uTox which works fine with audio/video support.

Cheers,
-- 
Carlos Jacobo Puga Medina <cpm at fbsd.es>
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