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It's for group calls. Jitsi worked fine one-on-one but as soon as a third person joined it became unusable.


Are any of the participants using Firefox? There's a known problem with Firefox's WebRTC and Jitsi wherein even a single Firefox participant can create performance issues for everyone.


I was using firefox. That's probably it.

Does only Chrome work? Seems to defeat the point of FOSS...


It is due to a bug in firefox (some kind of feature in webrtc not being enabled in Firefox). It however works in FOSS browsers such as chromium.

It may be resolved now: the bugzilla entry mentions a patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606823




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