Why would it be? They had federation on, but shut it down. It's getting less ope...

scrollaway · on April 18, 2015

Didn't say I was hopeful. But it is in line with "innovate first, then offer for standardization".

cpeterso · on April 18, 2015

Plus Hangouts launched with an NPAPI plugin that supported Firefox and IE, but now Hangouts is a Chrome-only extension:

http://www.google.com/hangouts/

magicalist · on April 18, 2015

> Plus Hangouts launched with an NPAPI plugin that supported Firefox and IE, but now Hangouts is a Chrome-only extension

huh? Not to further derail this thread into irrelevant topics, but open up gmail in Firefox. If you aren't still holding on to the old google chat, that's hangouts right there. It takes like 2 seconds to verify this.