[GTALUG] The New Skype Alpha.

[James Knott]

On 07/14/2016 08:33 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 07/13/2016 09:39 PM, James Knott wrote:
>> On 07/13/2016 12:09 PM, Scott Sullivan via talk wrote:
>>> Packages are 64-bit only... we've been asking and asking, and we get it
>>> finally, but 32-bit gets nothing. Irony.
>> Well, computers are 64 bits these days.  I've been running Linux on 64
>> bits for 10 years now.  Some distros are no longer available on 32 b.
>>
>>
>> I just tried the browser version in Chrome and it appears to work OK. 
>> It also opens in Firefox, but I haven't tried making a call there.  The
>> nice thing about using a browser is we don't need to have any MS
>> software contaminating our systems.
>>
>> One thing you can do with Firefox Hello is send a URL to someone, so
>> they can chat with you.  I haven't seen that available in Skype Web.
>>
> I've just noticed that Firefox has broken Hello.  It's now a web page
> sharing service.  While there is still a video chat link, it's been
> reduced to a tiny area of the screen, with whatever web page you were on
> taking up most of the frame.  I've been using browsers for over 20 years
> and even when providing computer support, I've never had the need or
> desire to share a web page.  I don't have a problem with this web page
> sharing "feature", provided it's optional.  Give the user a choice of
> sharing a page or just have a video chat.  As it is, Hello is now pretty
> much useless.
>
>

At least you can still send a link from Hangouts.