Firefox Send Lets You Share 1GB Files With No Strings Attached (cnet.com)

In 2017, Mozilla experimented with a service that let you transfer 1GB files by sharing a web address with the recipient. Firefox Send is now out of testing and boasts a magnified 2.5GB file-size limit if you log into your Firefox account. From a report: Firefox Send is handy for those moments when you need to share video, audio or photo files that can be too big to squeeze into an email attachment. [...] Firefox Send, which will also be available as an Android app, illustrates one of Mozilla's efforts to diversify beyond the Firefox browser. Mozilla touts Firefox Send as focusing on privacy and uses encryption to protect files. Firefox Send files are available for up to seven days and can be password-protected. You can also limit the number of times they're downloaded.

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I see a string

[DarkRookie2]

Requires and account to use. That is a string.

Re:I see a string

[Anonymous Coward]

Below 1GB it does not. So the title would be correct, no?

Re:I see a string

[EvilSS]

So you can share an unlimited amount of data if you do not register an account but only 2.5Gb if you do? That sounds strange.

It's a single file limit, not an account limit.

Re:I see a string

[infolation]

It's also a single download and single day limit.

The send.firefox.com site defaults to one download for one day. Attempting to change to more than one download, or more than one day, triggers an account login page. Also you have to be careful not to visit the link in any way, as this wipes the download and your recipient will receive a 'link expired' page.

So, long story short, wetransfer is more useful at moment.

Thunderbird integration?

[macraig]

Does it integrate with Thunderbird to rejuvenate its now useless Link feature? Remember that other development project of yours, Mozilla? You know, the one you very nearly dumped in the garbage but then merely stuffed in the back of the closet instead?

ObXKCD:

[cjellibebi]

https://xkcd.com/949/

Firefox integrates Pastebin

[Virtucon]

Nothing to see here, I still love Firefox but this is more of an add-on than a feature. I also can't see most enterprises being happy with it either.

Re:Fuckin millenials

[jellomizer]

We have been transferring files from computer to computer over the Internet for over a generations, However there always seems to a problem of people not having the tools to do this.
I will first blame Microsoft. For not implementing and embedding the SSH protocol (including SFTP) This created a lot of people unfamiliar to the Unix world to recreate their own Secure File Transfer system.

Secondly Firewalls and TCP/IP protocol means there needs to be a Client Server relationship. We really need a client to client file transfer method,

self-host

[SumDog]

Is the whole thing open source and can you self host it?

Re:self-host

[slack_justyb]

Yes, this is the server end code. You can find the clients here.

Re:Why would it not???

[SuperKendall]

Now return to studying for your next "cert".

And how would one write a text file to a disc that only stores ones and zeros?

HMMMMMM

Pretty telling you weren't even smart enough to link to a single source, all you could manage was a Duck Duck Go search. But then you AC's were always a few monkeys short of a barrel.

I'll let you have the last word so you can gibber on about how files composed of ones and zeros are not binary.

P.S. I don't have any "certs" because I actually know how to do things, instead of needing a paper that claims I can.