> hangouts' implementation of media streaming uses a plug-in. Sort of. That's true in non-Chrome browsers. In Chrome, Hangouts uses WebRTC. Though the Google

> hangouts' implementation of media streaming uses a plug-in. Sort of. That's true in non-Chrome browsers. In Chrome, Hangouts uses WebRTC. Though the Google Talk plugin that Hangouts uses in Firefox is (as I understand) used as a way of patching Firefox's WebRTC to make it behave more like Chrome's WebRTC.