[mkal_tsr]

I've updated my user.js helper/repo to disable Hello/"codename Loop" - https://github.com/m-kal/PrivatePanda

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Dear Mozilla,

Firefox is a browser. Can you please stop with the feature creep? That'd be lovely. Remember, you're a browser, not an operating system. Oh, you'd like to be an operating system? Cool, then make an OS (o hai there Firefox OS) and keep that functionality there. Stop adding extra features that are not needed to browse the internet.

It seems only Lynx cares about an authentic node-to-node / client-to-server relationship without all the privacy concerns :-(

[toolz]

You realize this is just a fancy bookmark, right? Lynx has bookmarks, too.

[mkal_tsr]

Can Lynx activate this feature at all? Lynx may have bookmarks, but as far as I can tell, Lynx does not have WebRTC support, which means it can not be exploited to share private LAN IP addresses, nor can it access web cams.

Firefox, like Chrome, is going overboard with non-web-browsing features. Some less technical users surely will appreciate that, but at some point it becomes less of a browser and more of a pseudo-OS.

If people don't voice their opinion against this direction, then Mozilla will continue down this path. I don't think it's too much to ask a web browser to be a web browser and nothing more.

[toolz]

Then your argument is against webRTC, not Hello.

[mkal_tsr]

I am also against webRTC, I don't think it's mutually exclusive. Mozilla is signalling with this that they're looking to push applications that leverage their feature-set.

[tedmielczarek]

Yes, because no other browser vendor ever does that. coughGooglecough.

[mkal_tsr]

You're implying that I don't care that Google and Opera are doing it too. That is false.