Month: December 2014
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How To Test Firefox Hello, Mozilla’s New WebRTC Video Call Service
Continue Reading: How To Test Firefox Hello, Mozilla’s New WebRTC Video Call ServiceWow! Mozilla’s new Firefox 34 includes a great new WebRTC-based feature called “Firefox Hello” that lets you call people without requiring them to have an account with Firefox. You simply send them a URL via email, chat or some other method – and they can start calling you from within Firefox.Here’s all you need to do to try it yourself. First, you need Firefox 34, of course. Once you have upgraded or installed the software, you should see a “Hello” button over on the far right side of the browser’s top bar:
If you don’t see this button, as I didn’t, you may have to perform the following steps, as documented in a Firefox help page:
1. Open the “Customize” section of the browser to add the “Hello” button to your menu bar:
2. Drag the “Hello” button to the browser bar or to the drop-down menu.
Now, in my case, that still didn’t work and I had to use the additional trick mentioned in the help article of going to http://about:config and changing “loop.throttled” to “false” (simply by clicking on that setting). After restarting Firefox I was then able to go into the Customize window and add…