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beachwood23
This is honestly the one thing keeping me from making Firefox my daily driver. But Hangouts still doesn't work for me, and I'm on FF Nightly.

Is anyone else able to get this to work?

codazoda
Same here; tested on FirefoxDeveloperEdition for Mac. Maybe this is a slow roll-out on the Google side.
baseethrowaway
Slow roll-out is so much more likely.

WebRTC has been supported for a while in Firefox, and no nightly will make Google serve you with a proper version. It's entirely up to Google.

qrv3w
I used it last night and it worked for me. I accidentally forgot to switch to Chrome to use Hangouts and was pleasantly surprised Firefox57 just worked.
Franciscouzo
Maybe you have an add-on that disables WebRTC?
JoshTriplett
Works for me on Firefox 57. And not only does it work, the echo cancellation works quite a bit better.
mod50ack
Thank God, about time. Any other major websites that still use browser-based proprietary extensions instead of open standards?
chii
there's no standard for a screenshare. i wish there was
notnarb
Not quite standardized, but Firefox appears to allow extension-less screensharing as of FF 52

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Screensharing

https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html

This is all done with parameters specified to getUserMedia as opposed to Chrome's extension-only "chrome.desktopCapture.chooseDesktopMedia"

As far as I can tell, the reason why screen-sharing is not more widely accessible is because of a security UX issue rather than a technical limitation. Both Firefox and Chrome are can provide you with media stream ID's to use in WebRTC negotiation, they differ mostly in the boundaries required to authorize access.

callesgg
Finally! I though they simply ignored firefox it used to say coming for firefix soon, these days it just says "please download chrome"
storrgie
Is this an incremental rollout?
nathancahill
Finally. The only reason why I ever had to open Chrome (besides testing).