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Firefox VoIP Client
libocannici writes "Abbeynet Labs has released the first version of a Firefox VoIP extension which is a full featured SIP user agent plugin for Firefox." The Firefox extension is completely stand-alone, with all VoIP functionality built directly into it. From one-click calling to SMS sending, this promises to be quite handy. All Internet calls are currently free, just requiring an abbyphone account, while PSTN calls have a small charge.
RTFA - you click on a phone number in a web page and it calls it. Not that cutting and pasting 10 digits would be that difficult, but there it is.
http://www.skype.com/download/skypewebtoolbar/fire fox.html
I maintain a salesforce database and this thing is brilliant. Just click the #.
There's also an IAX client for Asterisk fans called MozIAX available here.
For a Free/free cross-platform Firefox VOIP extension try OpenWengo (http://www.openwengo.org)
Wengo btw is my operator of choice here in Europe with top-notch voice quality and reliability with prices lower than Skype. Only problem is their inbound number is France only atm. Did I mention that they have a working Gaim port?
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Exactly, Its not configurable for use with Asterisk or anything else.
I find this plugin as useful as the yahoo toolbar that get's shoved down my throat at almost every turn now days.
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umm useing the callto:############### can prompt skype to make the call for you as well. it's not like it is genious or anything it defaults to the application set same as the mailto: function on the href.
You still don't need to build the VOIP into the browser. Just a Greasemonkey script to convert plain-text telephone numbers into <a href="tel:..."> links and a handler to pass off tel: links to an external program just like mailto: links are handled.
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Given how many people still use IE over Firefox, when IE 7 and 7+ are released (non-beta), there will be lots of development for IE "Add-ons". These are the Add-ons so far. On the main page, there's a link to make your own MSIE 7 add-ons. Thus, a new facet to the IE/Mozilla competition will emerge.
Shedding tears? No. IE users have a bright and better browsing future to look forward to.
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Skimming the site, the software may be free/open/libre, but it looks like the infrastructure into which it taps is not free (Wengo charges money). Is this the case with all voip setups/clients (that they must necessarily tap into a non-free infrastructural provider)?
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There are two standards for VoIP (SIP and H.323) and any application that implements them should interoperate just fine with any other implementation.
Any SIP VoIP application should interoperate just fine with any other SIP application. same goes for H.323.
Skype is special and uses a proprietary nonstandard protocol and as such wont interoperate with anything else.
It would be nice if skype were to be gradually phased out and replaced with proper H.323 or SIP based applications.
SIP is the standard protocol. What you are asking is a standard client which is politically hard to do especially in the FOSS community.
Don't count out IAX2. Although mainly designed to talk to Asterisk servers A)anyone could conceivably use it anyway and B) there certainly seem to be a lot of Asterisk servers out there these days...
But, yeah, SIP (the current favorite) and H.323 (older protocol, used by MS's old "NetMeeting(tm)" product and a number of others) are the big ones.
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