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Continuation of Mozilla’s Firefox Send, now a community fork hosted over multiple instances.
Reviewed by Marco Wollank
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
The community-run continuation of Mozilla’s beloved Firefox Send, offering encrypted, expiring file links across volunteer-hosted instances. The honesty here is about trust and reliability: you are depending on whoever runs the instance you pick, and community uptime is less guaranteed than a funded service. Great for quick encrypted one-off transfers when you trust your instance or self-host; not the choice for mission-critical sharing.
GitHub at a glance
timvisee/send MPL-2.0 encryptionfile-sharingfile-uploadfirefox-sendhacktoberfestsend
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opened / closed, last 4 weeks
Opened vs closed, last 12 weeks
Commits, last 26 weeks
5 commits, active 1 of 26 weeks
253 contributors since Oct 2020
Languages
- JavaScript 88.8%
- HTML 3.7%
- CSS 3%
- Other 4.5%
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Send license, in plain English
MPL-2.0 Weak copyleft
Use it freely, even commercially. Changes to the project's own files must stay open, but you can combine it with closed-source code.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source of modified files
- Same license on those files
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Trademark use
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Weak copyleft protects the project's own files: improvements to them stay open, while the code can still sit alongside closed-source software.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.
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