Bald Nerd | The Musings of Robbie Ferguson. Category5 TV Live. Find Software. Gizmo's Freeware | Find the best freeware fast. Free Software Sites. Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software. Software news, tips and opinions from Download.com editors. Chrome, Firefox now on speaking terms | The Download Blog. The days of needing an app, add-on, or extension to make video calls in your browser are numbered. Google and Mozilla, the respective makers of Chrome and Firefox, just demonstrated a new development in HTML5's WebRTC protocol that lets people talk to each other using two different browsers and no third-party apps. Currently only available in Chrome 25 beta and Firefox Nightly, the change in WebRTC comes thanks to the development work of several groups.
These include members of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as well as engineers at Google and Mozilla. Serge Lachapelle, Chrome product manager, and Maire Reavy, Firefox Media product lead, wrote in a joint blog post that the point of WebRTC is, "to provide a common platform for all user devices to communicate and share audio, video and data in real-time. " They added that, "[t]his is a first step toward that vision of interoperability and true, open, real-time communication on the web. " Software.