Yeah, but this perception always irks me: "Firefox for Desktop runs its own custom push service called `autopush` that keeps long-lived Web Sockets open. As you surely know, that's not viable on a phone"
Holding open a socket that has no data traversing it consumes almost no power. GSM is essentially doing this themselves, how else does it work on a wifi only device like a tablet? Perhaps a patch could be written for Fennec/Firefox to use the autopush desktop service? On 12/14/2017 03:39 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Finally, an answer to why Firefox needs GCM push services: > https://forum.f-droid.org/t/making-it-easier-for-f-droid-to-package-mozilla-firefox/1649/13 > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [F-Droid Forum] [Apps] Making it easier for F-Droid to package > Mozilla Firefox > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:33:53 +0000 > From: Nick Alexander <fo...@f-droid.org> > > [quote="hans, post:12, topic:1649, full:true"] > @nalexander about Google Play Services, what is the push stuff used for? > I never understand why Firefox needed its own push services. But I do > understand why push requires GCM on Android. > [/quote] > > This I can answer, 'cuz I built most of this integration for Fennec :) > The Firefox product family wants push services to support the [Web Push > HTML5 spec](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API). > This is a big part of the Progressive Web Apps initiative that aims to > make developing rich App experiences possible using the Web Platform. > Firefox for Desktop runs its own custom push service called `autopush` > that keeps long-lived Web Sockets open. As you surely know, that's not > viable on a phone -- the OS is best positioned to do that work, > potentially using side-channels from existing (carrier) channels. > Therefore, Firefox for Android uses an `autopush` bridge to Google Cloud > Messaging (and eventually will have to migrate to Firebase Cloud > Messaging), and Firefox for iOS uses an `autopush` bridge to Apple Push > Notification Service. > > > _______________________________________________ > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > To unsubscribe, email: guardian-dev-unsubscr...@lists.mayfirst.org > _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: guardian-dev-unsubscr...@lists.mayfirst.org
