webrtc-extensions vs Firefox Send

webrtc-extensions

A repository for experimental additions to the WebRTC API (by w3c)

WebRTC

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Firefox Send

By mozilla

File Sharing and Synchronization Distributed filesystems Peer-to-peer filesharing

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webrtc-extensions		Firefox Send
	Project
1	Mentions	11
55	Stars	13,151
-	Growth	-
7.8	Activity	9.2
5 days ago	Latest Commit	-
HTML	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

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webrtc-extensions

Posts with mentions or reviews of webrtc-extensions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-05.

Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2021

Thanks, this is great context! Especially the very different focus in these two projects explains a lot (lightweight control channel for A/V [1] vs. the entire reason for using WebRTC in all of these file transfer projects).
Curious to see how the new implementation will play out for the browsers!
[1] https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions/issues/71#issuecomm...

Firefox Send

Posts with mentions or reviews of Firefox Send. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-08.

How to send password securely?
21 projects | /r/sysadmin | 8 Jan 2023

Anyone can host a Send server (usually https://github.com/timvisee/send which is a continuation of https://github.com/mozilla/send).
Peer to peer method for file transfers and messaging
2 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 18 Dec 2022

Send is a fork of Firefox Send that offers E2EE. I haven't personally used it myself, but it seems promising.
Software to send files and messages between PCs securely
1 project | /r/privacy | 16 Sep 2022

Firefox Send https://github.com/mozilla/send
server side AES encryption
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Jun 2022
Firefox Relay
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2021
Firefox send at send.fdab.se
1 project | /r/firefox | 14 Aug 2021

Is the instance of send at send.fdab.se an official Firefox instance? I thought Mozilla discontinued the project and the address doesn't look official, yet the website claims to be Firefox Send.
How expensive do you think it may be for a simple individual to host a Tresorit alternative?
4 projects | /r/privacytoolsIO | 5 Aug 2021

Firefox Send
DoD Safe Alternative for Non DoD Usage
2 projects | /r/homelab | 23 Jul 2021
Send: A Fork of Mozilla's Firefox Send
16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2021
Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone
5 projects | /r/firefox | 23 Mar 2021

Yes, Mozilla's Send is fully open source. I just forked it and made minor changes to keep it alive.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing webrtc-extensions and Firefox Send you can also consider the following projects:

sharedrop - Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop

FilePizza - :pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser

instant.io - 🚀 Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web)

pcp - 📦 Command line peer-to-peer data transfer tool based on libp2p.

peerflix-server - Streaming torrent client for Node.js with web ui.

linguist - Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!

qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client

snapdrop - A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

ClearURLs-Addon - ClearURLs is an add-on based on the new WebExtensions technology and will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy.

github1s - One second to read GitHub code with VS Code.

Magnetico - Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.