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Why remove HELLO when it worked well in Win XP & Win 7; it was p2p and secure unlike alternative sites which may not be around forever

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I was happy when Firefox introduced HELLO and now I am sad that it was removed from Firefox. It worked well on Windows XP and on Windows 7. I tried the alternatives sites that you listed, but will they be there for us in the future? Several good websites have vanished over the years, but I figured that HELLO was safe to rely on because Firefox is not going to vanish. In general I believe good code should be kept around forever. Even 30 old games are available in abandonware sites. HELLO was good because it was easy to use and it was for 1 on 1 conversations. These other sites can be used for groups and thus a recycled room name can be used over and over and may allow a previous room user to barge in on someone else who is now using the same room name. You have to take extra steps to enroll members, lock the room, block users, etc. HELLO WAS SIMPLE TO USE, peer-to-peer, encrypted, and thus should have just been left in Firefox. Why remove it? I vote to put it back in, call it a BETA test, and let us use it.

I was happy when Firefox introduced HELLO and now I am sad that it was removed from Firefox. It worked well on Windows XP and on Windows 7. I tried the alternatives sites that you listed, but will they be there for us in the future? Several good websites have vanished over the years, but I figured that HELLO was safe to rely on because Firefox is not going to vanish. In general I believe good code should be kept around forever. Even 30 old games are available in abandonware sites. HELLO was good because it was easy to use and it was for 1 on 1 conversations. These other sites can be used for groups and thus a recycled room name can be used over and over and may allow a previous room user to barge in on someone else who is now using the same room name. You have to take extra steps to enroll members, lock the room, block users, etc. HELLO WAS SIMPLE TO USE, peer-to-peer, encrypted, and thus should have just been left in Firefox. Why remove it? I vote to put it back in, call it a BETA test, and let us use it.