[sf-lug] Tip: Better to use Chromium/Chrome but up-to-date FF fine too ... for Jitsi

[Michael Paoli]

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Tip: Better to use Chromium/Chrome but  
> up-to-date FF fine too ... for Jitsi
> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 14:37:37 -0700

> First, I just found this useful page in the Jitsi Meet GitHub repo's
> associated wiki: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/wiki/Browser-support

Ah ... nice find!  Alas, it doesn't look very current/maintained,
so ... for future consideration?
E.g. at present it both still says (hasn't changed since the
earlier) (last) "edited this page on May 3" and
"Assuming latest version of browser" - and of the browsers mentioned,
it doesn't mention which version was tested.
And I'd expect/suspect, that of the many other WebRTC browsers, though
many may not work great/100%, I'd expect likely at least some of 'em
more-or-less sort'a kind'a mostly work?  Yet that wiki page has no mention
of 'em one way or another.

Anyway, I didn't think it informative enough ... yet ... to link from
the SF-LUG page, ... but hey, future potential ... I put it in
comments in the HTML source - so anyone editing it can review and
may decide to later add it (possibly even replacing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC#Support
).

> ASCII rendition:
>
> ---<begin>---
>
> Browser support
> (a/o May 3rd)
>
> Assuming latest version of browser.
>
>                            100%      Extra
> Browser                    supported details
> -------                    --------- -------
> Google Chrome              Yes
> Chromium (+ Edge Chromium) Yes
> Firefox                    No        No simulcast support, excessive  
> CPU usage
> Safari MacOS               No
> Safari iOS                 No
>
> ---<end>---
>
> That appears to be what Michael was looking for.  (The reference to
> ('Edge Chromium') means later versions of Microsoft Edge built atop the
> Chromium Blink engine.  Earlier versions of Microsoft Edge were not.)