My wife had been using Firefox Send to send videos to her mom, and then one day a few months ago it just suddenly started saying it was "temporarily unavailable" and never came back. It's not...
My wife had been using Firefox Send to send videos to her mom, and then one day a few months ago it just suddenly started saying it was "temporarily unavailable" and never came back.
It's not surprising with Mozilla cutting back on so many of their projects now, but still disappointing because it worked well. Does anyone know of a comparable alternative for sending somewhat large files (hundreds of MB) easily?
I have been testing Syncthing and Nextcloud on a server and both work really well for file/folder sync or sharing and with server encryption as an option.
I have been testing Syncthing and Nextcloud on a server and both work really well for file/folder sync or sharing and with server encryption as an option.
Looks like they're really focusing on competing with Google. In-poor-taste jokes aside, this is a shame. Although I had never heard of Firefox Notes, Firefox Send was an excellent "blue ocean"...
In-poor-taste jokes aside, this is a shame. Although I had never heard of Firefox Notes, Firefox Send was an excellent "blue ocean" product that capitalized on a service that I still don't think has been solved, or has good options - easy, single-file, disposable file transfer. Google Drive, Dropbox, and related are all not great - just a total pain to upload, share, and download from.
I'll have to check out some of the alternatives mentioned in this thread.
Send didn't really capitalize though, since it made them no money, only added costs. Maybe they could have made it a paid premium service instead of shutting it down. Though I guess abusers could...
Send didn't really capitalize though, since it made them no money, only added costs. Maybe they could have made it a paid premium service instead of shutting it down. Though I guess abusers could still use it anonymously by paying with stored-value cards and such.
The only thing I know about Send strategy was that it was originally being used to drive adoption of Firefox Accounts, as using FxA increased your allowed storage limit. I'm not privy to the...
The only thing I know about Send strategy was that it was originally being used to drive adoption of Firefox Accounts, as using FxA increased your allowed storage limit.
I'm not privy to the analysis that was done re: where to take Send, but I definitely agree with you that it could have evolved to a paid premium service.
The browser itself seems to be out of focus. Even without this quote from the article, it's been pretty clear from Mitchell Baker's message addressing recent layoffs and "product refocus".
[...] this decision allows us to sharpen our focus on experiences like Mozilla VPN, Firefox Monitor, and Firefox Private Network.
The browser itself seems to be out of focus. Even without this quote from the article, it's been pretty clear from Mitchell Baker's message addressing recent layoffs and "product refocus".
Actually, that is partly wrong. Send was launched as an experiment back in 2017 along with Notes. Maybe I should modify Wikipedia about that although, they do link the techcrunch article about it....
Actually, that is partly wrong. Send was launched as an experiment back in 2017 along with Notes. Maybe I should modify Wikipedia about that although, they do link the techcrunch article about it.
Edit : Correction, Wikipedia does mention this but it's part of the history section rather than at the top where they say it launched in 2019
My wife had been using Firefox Send to send videos to her mom, and then one day a few months ago it just suddenly started saying it was "temporarily unavailable" and never came back.
It's not surprising with Mozilla cutting back on so many of their projects now, but still disappointing because it worked well. Does anyone know of a comparable alternative for sending somewhat large files (hundreds of MB) easily?
It's strange how, 9 years on, we've only moved forward from this xkcd a little bit, at least if you only count services people actually know about.
Clone on FFSend: https://hatbat.in/
If encryption is important: https://whisp.ly/
Otherwise Dropbox, Drive, Mega, WeTransfer, iCloud all work
Thanks!
Lufi. Disroot hosts an instance.
I have been testing Syncthing and Nextcloud on a server and both work really well for file/folder sync or sharing and with server encryption as an option.
Tresorit Send is an option.
Looks like they're really focusing on competing with Google.
In-poor-taste jokes aside, this is a shame. Although I had never heard of Firefox Notes, Firefox Send was an excellent "blue ocean" product that capitalized on a service that I still don't think has been solved, or has good options - easy, single-file, disposable file transfer. Google Drive, Dropbox, and related are all not great - just a total pain to upload, share, and download from.
I'll have to check out some of the alternatives mentioned in this thread.
Send didn't really capitalize though, since it made them no money, only added costs. Maybe they could have made it a paid premium service instead of shutting it down. Though I guess abusers could still use it anonymously by paying with stored-value cards and such.
The only thing I know about Send strategy was that it was originally being used to drive adoption of Firefox Accounts, as using FxA increased your allowed storage limit.
I'm not privy to the analysis that was done re: where to take Send, but I definitely agree with you that it could have evolved to a paid premium service.
For context: Firefox Notes was little known, never advertised, barely used, and out of development for ages
I was expecting Notes to die soon, it hasn't been maintained for months and bugs from last year haven't been fixed.
As long as this means they can focus more effort on the browser, then okay great.
The browser itself seems to be out of focus. Even without this quote from the article, it's been pretty clear from Mitchell Baker's message addressing recent layoffs and "product refocus".
FWIW, most of the Gecko, Fx Desktop, and Fx Mobile teams survived the layoffs.
Yeah... I realize that, I was just trying to be optimistic.
What? Firefox Send launched in 2019.
Actually, that is partly wrong. Send was launched as an experiment back in 2017 along with Notes. Maybe I should modify Wikipedia about that although, they do link the techcrunch article about it.
Edit : Correction, Wikipedia does mention this but it's part of the history section rather than at the top where they say it launched in 2019
By 'launched' I mean released to the public.