Facetime and Skype are great for making video calls, provided you want to talk with someone who owns an iPhone or iPad or has Skype installed. Mozilla has a better option: person-to-person calling with no sign-ups, sign-ins, plug-ins, or special devices required.
Getting things going is dead simple. From the Firefox 35 toolbar, just click the cheery Hello icon and start a conversation. Share the link with your family, friends, co-workers, or whoever you need to chat with, and wait for them to click the link. As long as their browser — desktop or mobile — supports WebRTC and can access a camera and mic, they’re good to go.
Once you’ve received a URL for a conversation, it’s there for good. If I want to chat with my parents again in a few days, for example, we can both just click on the same link again. The Hello panel in Firefox maintains a list of all your chat sessions; you can label them so you don’t have to remember which URL corresponds to which contacts and you can delete entries that you no longer need… see more
source: geek
Tags: Firefox hello, technology, Video Chat
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