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Send by Firefox — Share large files online, encrypted for free
Firefox Send lets you send large files, up to 1gb completely for free and encrypted
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Guillaume Flandre
A free, encrypted, ad-free WeTransfer alternative? Yes, please.
The only limit might be this 1 day/1 click limit. Might not be the best thing for clients/teammates/stakeholders that are slower to check their emails or that are not focused on your project that day.
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Here's Mozilla taking a page out of *Snapchat*. The ephemeral nature of this service is going to make it sustainable I guess.
Thank you for sharing a great project! I would like to add that you can give a try to https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
This service was specially created for sending huge files online with no limits
This is great and URL is easy to remember. Although I liked it, I guessed it could be a P2P file transfer using WebRTC kind of thing (like Firefox Hello) but it is not. Is there any good online P2P file transfer transfer service that you know of?
Okay so let me get this right. Essentially speaking, this is like WeTransfer except that it encrypts your files yes? I am intrigued, but I do have to admit that with all the hype around encryption and encryption based apps, what exactly do you offer in terms of privacy?
I like the fact that each link that's generated expires automatically so that it can't remain a permanent resident of the inter-webs, but how exactly is my anonymity protected if say someone I did not intend to share it with finds the link somewhere, somehow?
We obviously can't get enough of free file sharing tools and your twist does sound like a twist but perhaps more detail in the workings behind it would clear some things up.
You have my upvote tough!
@fouad_tolaib About your part on the link landing in inappropriate hands, Send by Firefox allows only one download. Once it's downloaded, it looks like the link being used by the same person or others would result in an error.
Great product, keep up the good work. I personally think that it would have been much better if we could send the file to targeted users from the platform itself. Creating a private friend circle solves the problem of random people downloading files from the link.
Or you should let the user select the time - when the link should expire. So that the user can know that no one else can access the file in such a short period of time.
Or you should enable double authentication, once the end user clicks on the link he/she received from the other friend, the web portal should ask for some type of password or code which the file owner received via e-mail when the end user opened the link.
How do you promise good downloading/uploading speed in different countries and regions?
The description says it uses end-to-end encryption, but where the private and public keys are generated, on server or browser? seems like keys are generated on server side, not client end, if so then what's the point of end-to-end encryption?
Guys, I have tried something for this same purposes and uses WhatsApp like end-to-end encryption, which means private and public keys are generated on client side and data is encrypted on client side.
Check it out and give your thoughts:
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
@thibaultmilan Agreed. The first thing I wonder about free services is how much does "free" cost.
@thibaultmilan the business model, I'm sure, is marketing. It's just a way for them to insert you into one of their marketing funnels. Either way, it's a great initiative and as long as it remains free; big kudos to them.
@thibaultmilan Well Mozilla is a non-profit and this is framed as an experiment so probably it only needs to break even, if at all
A few days ago I needed to share a private key and cert with a party that didn't have a PGP key. I felt "dirty" by sending the key in plaintext, but this is amazing!
@samilkarahisar RIP Dropbox is a bit inappropriate. Dropbox is a mammoth with a ton of features. Send by Firefox looks neat for one-off sharing.
@samilkarahisar It's just an alternative to WeTransfer and other apps like this. It's not going to replace cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive.
@arunsathiya I agree with both you and Daniel. I should have said Rip Dropbox in my case. Because I mostly use Dropbox for the exact same thing Send does.
@samilkarahisar But then, file download limits and destruction after certain window are interesting features that are not available on Dropbox.
The idea is great and useful. It's nice to see an alternative that is offered by a well known foundation.
However I'm not sure how encryption protects the file. From what I can tell, users who download don't need to enter the key; its part of the URL. So somehow the service needs to know the decryption key, which defeats the purpose. It would be great to get more details on how the service works behind the scenes!
On September 17, 2020, as a part of Mozilla's business and products refocusing plans, the service was shut down permanently.
Alternatives:
Sendgb.com and wetransfer.com
@arunsathiya Yeah. It's always the same. How do we transfer these files. USBthumb? nopp may be infected, Dropbox? probably wont fit. what was that URL to that new filesharing site? cant remember. but send.firefox.com I think is something I may remember.
