Roll Your Own Hangouts.app With Fluid.app So basically the XMPP gateway for Hangouts sucks. Google Voice SMS integration doesn’t work.Google Voice voicemail messages are not delivered to Jabber.Voice and Video don’t work, although they used to when Hangouts was Google Talk.The Jabber client stream doesn’t include any messages sent or received when Jabber is not connected.I tried using the XMPP/Jabber protocol gateway to Hangouts but it is unsatisfactory: We use Hangouts at my company so that’s a problem. The extension diet caused me a problem because it killed Hangouts. The internet needs a new monetization strategy.) Hangouts and XMPP/Jabber The ad networks are now a malware vector and the quantity of the ads is overwhelming. If it wasn’t AdBlock Plus, I would use something else and have done so in the past. I’ve turned off “acceptable ads” and I don’t want to see any ads. (AdBlock Plus has become a controversial topic because of their extortion of big sites as a monetization strategy. In Safari and Firefox, I only have the Adblock Plus extension and nothing else. My first step to wean myself out of this cesspool was to go on an acetic extension diet. I hadn’t really paid attention but it turns out that the extensions themselves each consume a lot of resources and I have run into extensions that monetize with sneaky tricks. Without my even realizing it, I left the Open Web and moved into Google’s Web. Transitioning away from Chrome is not easy, especially if you get hooked on the extension and app ecosystem. Running Chrome is literally a similar workload to running a hypervisor running a whole other operating system. To put that in perspective, it is the same ballpark that I lose if I fire up VMWare to run my Windows Server 2012 R2 with Visual Studio. Running Chrome with only core Google plugins and extensions for Hangouts and Drive, I get about 2 hours less battery life on my 2014 15″ MacBook Pro 11,2. With the power management improvements and battery shaming Apple built into OS X 10.9 and 10.10, is has become clear to me that Chrome requires a lot of power and memory to run. Chrome is a large application these days. It literally is an operating system when packaged as Chrome OS. Chrome is a great browser but it also wants to be an operating system that has its own launcher and app ecosystem. Now that Chrome has a plurality market share, Google is positioning it as an enhanced web experience, just like Microsoft did with IE. Remember when Chrome was new and fast and light and minimalist? The name Chrome was meant an in-joke to the UX jargon chrome, meaning the frame around an app.
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