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Google Meet FirefoxNovember 8, 2019

Removing Old Versions of DTLS

As you probably have read already old versions of TLS are going to be removed in March 2020. Obviously we don’t want to leave Firefox WebRTC users behind and vulnerable. Thus we are planing on disabling support for DTLS 1.0 also in March 2020.

According to our measurements the absolute majority (98.12%) of WebRTC services use DTLS 1.2 already today.

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  • Unfortunately that meant that Firefox users could no longer enjoy Google Hangouts or Meet. Google Chrome users could continue to use Hangouts and Meet without a NPAPI plugin, because the Google Hangout backend service had support for a flavor of WebRTC only implemented in Google Chrome.
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The remaining 1.88% need to start upgrading to DTLS 1.2 today.

To help with the transition and testing we added new user preferences to Firefox 71 (currently available as Firefox Beta):

A super dope tool that attends your Google Meet(s) for you. Flawlessly handles scheduled multiple (subsequent) Meet sessions. Also disables the camera & microphone, and shows timestamps of joining & ending times for each Meet. Browsers supported: Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox - SHUR1K-N/MeetNinja-Google-Meet-Bot.

  • media.peerconnection.dtls.version.min = 770
  • media.peerconnection.dtls.version.max = 771

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To test with DTLS 1.2 only simply open about:config and set media.peerconnection.dtls.version.min to 771. From now on your Firefox will no longer offer DTLS 1.0, as if it would be a release from March 2020.