Is it possible to use firefox hello in debian iceweasel?

Question

Now that I have Iceweasel version 38.2.1 installed in Debian Jessie (stable), this discussion says it should be possible to use the internet phone within Iceweasel. But I can't see "Hello" in the Iceweasel menu.

• One bug reported in Debian concerns trademark issues: #775392 iceweasel: Telefonica loop/hello trademark / DP issues?.
• Does it remain unavailable due to such a privacy issue?

There are probably people working on this, is there any place where this is followed up?

Answer 1

I just got this working in Iceweasel 38.3.0 on Jessie.

Mozilla says that 'Firefox Hello' is not available in ESR versions of Firefox but it seems that it's just disabled by default.

To enable Hello go to the 'about:config' page and set the preference called 'loop.enabled' to 'true'. 'Loop' was a previous name for the 'Hello' feature. It seems that you also need to accept cookies from mozilla.org for this feature to work.