I cannot express how much I love this service. Firefox Send is flat out the best way to send files securely over the internet by giving someone a URL (and optionally a password).
For sending files, Firefox Send is pretty cool and straightforward. The files are sent P2P and are E2E encrypted. I'm not sure why Mozilla hasn't added a bookmark for it in Firefox yet.
Just looked at transfer.sh, and it seems like a much WORSE alternative. The best thing about Firefox Send was the simple end-to-end encryption where I could upload the file, then just send someone the (secure) 1-time only download URL. Looks like transfer.sh doesn't support any encryption on its own, you have to do all your encryption/decryption on your own.
Firefox Send[0] is a pretty easy way to do one-to-one file sharing. As a bonus the file is encrypted before being transferred and decrypted after download.
> Firefox Send allows you to share large files securely (but not store them). The caveat being that you need to have a Firefox account to use all of the above ...
There's no requirement for a Firefox account, for Send. And it works well via Tor, with no CAPTCHA bullshit.
Yes firefox is good option. Sendgb is from Estonia. Sendgb allows file transfer up to 5 GB. File are storages up to 90 days for free. Nobody knows which one is more safety.
Sometimes big services have more security problems...like Dropbox, wetransfer etc...
Yea but it doesn't seem like Firefox Send lets you right click on any file anywhere on my computer and just right click to Transfer. The uploading with Dropbox Transfer (through the desktop client) is super reliable too -- I have Time Warner internet and when it invariably craps out, my upload auto-resumes. Looks like this here: https://www.dropbox.com/t/jJNe5IBPrezaw7aE
I've used Firefox Send for several months while it was still a test pilot program. It's been very useful for quickly sending files to family. The fact that the link expires as soon as the other party downloads it means I don't have to worry about clean up.
I liked Firefox send to share files with correspondants who aren’t tech savvy and wouldn’t know how to use pgp or who would be confused at a zip file asking for a password. Firefox send was great because it also encrypted the files while on their servers and didn’t need an account to download.
This seems like table-stakes for a modern file transfer system. Accepting unencrypted files and storing them temporarily in the clear on your own servers seems like it only introduces tons of additional risks without much gain.
Firefox send has much better UI. You have to actually read the text of transfer.sh to find out how to upload via browser, while Firefox Send is immediately obvious for the average Joe.
I think what helps is that there's two (or more) parties to a file transfer: the sender and the recipient. Someone who uses Firefox might start using Send, and then the recipient(s) finds out that they can use it too. And if they're using Send, the might start to consider using Firefox, or to create a Firefox account first.
In the past, I used https://volafile.org/ for sharing files that will be deleted within a week. Volafile doesn’t do end-to-end encryption like Firefox Send, but it allows you to upload files over 2.5 GB.
Volafile’s multi-file “room” functionality, with chat, makes it more suited for sharing files among multiple people, while Firefox Send is optimized for sending a single file to a single person or a targeted group.
I really don't get why people are criticizing and saying that there are better alternatives to this. Of course there is. This was not built to be the best way to send files, just to be the most practical one. Some people don't even know there is life outside of Facebook, they will never know about alternatives to send a file they could not send using email or messager. And this shows that Mozilla is starting building services layers on Firefox.
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