On Monday 08 Dec 2014 19:20:55 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I've worked it out.
>
> Good.
>
> > The Mozilla crew didn't enable it by default for all users because
> > they didn't want everyone hammering their servers at once (Google for
> > 'How to enable Firefox Hello').
> >
> > You have to do a bit of jiggery-pokery in about:config and restart
> > Google to get it to work.
>
> Yes, so says that news.ycombinator link above. :-)
Yes. But even that link didn't quite cut it. You have to restart Firefox and
then drag the Hello icon from the Add-ins area onto the Menu bar, not just
into the Add-ins area as indicated in the original link.
> > However, there's no desktop client AFAICT.
>
> No, this is all aimed at getting browser support for a new standard
> without needing plugins, etc., so it "just works". If there was a
> desktop client, it would likely just be a wrapper around a layout engine
> from a browser that implements it, e.g. Gecko.
Well the Hangouts Desktop App is a little icon on the desktop that allows the
user to 'make a call' or 'answer a call'. Once the action has occurred,
Chrome(ium) is launched, but it's at least one less step for the user and he
doesn't have to run the browser all the time.
As already mentioned, Mum is not computer literate and anything that involves
more than a few clicks is hard for her to remember.
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