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There is no technical reason, Google has simply decided that they won't support Firefox.

• sitkack 9y ago
  Seems unGoogley.
• Sylos 9y ago
  Hey now, they're "actively working to develop a solution that will enable Hangouts to work in Firefox without a [NPAPI] plugin" [0]. These things take time, you know. Especially with the limited resources of Google, Mozilla not already having announced the deprecation of NPAPI plugins two years ago [1] and there not already being a web standard, mainly pushed by Google, that enables video and audio calling for every modern browser out there [2]. [0]: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/02/google-hangouts-temporary-issues-with-firefox.html https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/02/google-hangouts... [1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plu... [2]: https://webrtc.org/ https://webrtc.org/
  • robert_foss 9y ago
    That's some hugh quality snark right there. Thank you good sir.
  • bagacrap 9y ago
    It's hard to understand who you're trying to blame here, but it sounds like a classic case of the "two ways of doing a thing" (the deprecated way and the one that doesn't work yet).