The first video call between Chrome and Firefox

“Hi, Chrome! Firefox is calling you , ”the message appeared in the official Mozilla blog. As you can understand, the event is associated with the first-ever video conversation between Firefox and Chrome browsers.

Support for WebRTC specifications in Chrome 25 Beta and Firefox Nightly browsers has reached such a level and uniformity that it became possible to directly call from one browser to another by voice and video chat via RTCPeerConnection. For the transmission of sound and video, the free codecs Opus and VP8 are used, for encryption - DTLS-SRTP , for breaking through firewalls - ICE .

Neither Skype nor any third-party programs are needed. Only browser.
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If you want to repeat the experiment, in Firefox you need in about: config to set media.peerconnection.enabled to true . You can contact each other through the demo site apprtc.appspot.com (now heavily overloaded), or through any other site that has support for video calls through the browser. For instructions on how to implement support for RTCPeerConnection on your site, see here .

Chrome 25 Beta and Firefox Nightly are experimental builds that will be fixed in official releases in a few weeks.

Opera browser on the way - and also will soon join the chat. But Microsoft does not want to be present at this celebration of life. She persistently promotes her “more open” version of WebRTC, without being tied to Opus and V8 codecs by default, and continues to develop the HTML5 version of Skype.