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It's very disheartening that when you try to connect with firefox, it says you should use chrome. This is a direct stab in the heart of the people who would favor it over zoom because it is free software.

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As others have said, this seems to be a Firefox issue, once you get a larger number of participants in a call it becomes unusable with a single firefox user.

I have actually considered running an instance of jitsi meet where I block out all non-chrome browsers. I don't like it, but if you pragmatically want something that works...

I really feel in this situation Mozilla should put all resources on fixing issues like these.

The reason is that Firefox's simulcast support is iffy. It works fine, though (better than Hangouts did on Firefox, last I checked!)

Zoom also recommends Chrome [1]. As other users said, the issue is probably with Firefox’s simulcast, not Jitsi.

[1] https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629443-Zoom-Web...

I use it with Firefox and it works just fine

What version of Firefox? What OS?

Can confirm Firefox-dev on Linux has no working video.

Firefox preview on my phone in desktop mode worked FWIW.

If that's on iOS, you're not actually using Firefox since it uses Apple's Webkit.

Firefox preview is only on android.

iOS doesn’t support videoconferencing in the browser - you have to download the app.

Firefox stable /Linux. Video works.

Works for me, firefox-nightly (76) on Linux.

Arch linux Firefox Nightly 76

Works fine though not tested mic(muted on system).

Firefox 74.0 on Fedora works.

AFAIK Firefox on GNU/Linux uses Gstreamer. Maybe you need to install gstreamer codec packages.

Update: Firefox switched to FFmpeg and removed Gstreamer support some time ago. I have FFmpeg installed from rpmfusion, but I don't know if that's relevant to WebRTC and Jitsi.

Looks like 2020 is still not the "year of Linux on the desktop"

(from a desktop Linux user years 1996-2004)

It works on Firefox but does not have simulcast support so whenever someone on Firefox joins, other devices have to use vastly more CPU and bandwidth. My phone dropped 50% battery in 10 minutes with a Firefox user on.

It is being worked on [1].

Firefox was a supported browser but they took it off the list in January until this issue is fixed. [2]

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758#issuecomment...

[2] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/5017

Sounds like a great DOS attack on meetings you don't want to be in. Just join from Firefox and everyone's battery dies.

And here I am, opening Chrome just so I can join audio in Zoom conference. For some reason it says "Your browser does not support using the computer’s Audio device" and recommends Chrome.

p.s. Discord has no problems with my audio

After Firefox warning I've tried Safari and got the same 'Browser Warning' badge btw.

It worked better for me in Firefox than Chromium.

Tried it in Firefox with just 3 people in the room and the UI (mute/hangout/video off) UI is like 0.2 FPS

It really shouldn’t matter that much — using some open source software is better than using none.

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