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I use it with Firefox and it works just fine

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.

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)

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