With Firefox Hello, Mozilla is trying to remove the proprietary shackles from online voice and video chat.

The new service lets Firefox Beta users chat with anyone regardless of what browser the other person is using. As long as that browser supports WebRTC—as both Chrome and Opera natively do—the recipient can get a callback link and start chatting with no login or extra steps required.

Firefox users do get some extra benefits, though. In addition to being able to initiate calls, users who have Firefox accounts can contact each other with one click instead of having to share a callback link.

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