Firefox Hello, the WebRTC interface baked into Firefox and then released as an add-on, will be discontinued in Firefox 49. WebRTC is suite of technology that allows for communicating over the web, notably through video chat.
They aren’t strong, but I always have feelings when Mozilla adds or removes something from Firefox. In this case it isn’t about the Hello service, which I used in some capacity, but rather that I can’t find any info on how they came to this decision. No doubt it is available somewhere, but I am not willing to dig through mailing list archives to find it.
For those worrying about Hello stopping, there are alternatives, some of which are listed on that support page. I’ve had decent experiences with Jitsi.
Are there any other open source video chat services you’d recommend?