Sad to see this is dependent on an extension to WebRTC that’s (currently) Chrome / Chromium-only. It’s still a proposed API, and I don’t see when this will be supported by any other browsers.
The ability to do E2EE is kind of a big deal, even though insertable streams can be used for other things, so we hope other browser vendors join the effort.
There have been other approaches in the past such as PERC [0] and ongoing related ones like MLS [1], this is a relevant topic these days.
[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/perc/documents/ [1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
Yes, our Firefox support has not been great, but we are working on making it better: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758
> Desktop sharing? Chrome plugin.
This was a browser limiation, which is no longer needed since about 2 years ago.
> Desktop client? Chromium/Electron.
You need to ue it! Use the browser, or the mobile apps.
You're right that screen sharing does seem to work in Firefox! Thanks for pointing that out. It looks like FF on my Linux box is blocking it, but I guess that's a permission issue I need to fix locally.
I am mainly a Firefox user on NixOS, but for running Chrom{e,ium} I find that Firejail [0] is a good option. For example, to run chromium in "store" mode and point it to the demo jitsi instance:
firejail --profile=chromium chromium --app="https://meet.jit.si"
nix-shell -p chromium --run "firejail --profile=chromium chromium --app=\"https://meet.jit.si\""
I don’t even install anything derived from Chrome in my computer, and I’m not going to change that policy.
Please be aware that aside from E2E demoed here, there is allegedly a Firefox-specific bug regarding WebRTC which degrades performance for all participants in a call: https://community.jitsi.org/t/software-unusable-on-firefox-w...