Gmail gains voice and video chat
Posted by Jay Donovan on 11/11/08 in Firefox, General
From Ars Technica
Gmail’s budding reputation as a communication hub for more than just e-mail received a major endorsement today with the addition of voice and video chat. Google launched the feature today and will roll it out to users around the world over the next couple of days.
Gmail’s new voice and video features work in modern browsers that support the latest version of its web app, namely Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0, IE7, and Google Chrome. Google Apps users will also get this feature as it rolls out, but Gmail voice and video conversations are only supported on Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista via a Gmail voice and video chat plug-in that must be installed. Sorry, students, Internet café nomads, and cubicle warriors everywhere, but you may have to beg your admins for this new feature.
I haven’t been able to try it yet, but it installed just fine. Will be hitting up all my peeps tomorrow. Stay tuned. How long until mobile Gmail clients support it? Who knows?
Firefox site collapsed
I think that Firefox guys are going to have serious problems trying to brake the World Record of the most downloaded program in one day because they site has been most of the day down!
Update: I just gained access to their main page a few minutes ago and downloaded it.
is Firefox 3 that good?
I have been reading very good reports lately about Firefox 3. Most of them talking about how fast the new versions is it and how convenient for UMPC owners. But according to Paul’s Supersite Blog Firefox crashes more often than what anyone would consider normal.
I’ve been working on my Firefox 3 review lately and one thing I’m a little bit concerned about is the reliability of this product.
