Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

What Flash? I'm not aware of the apprtc demo using flash at all. It's just browser WebRTC together with Google's App Engine and TURN services for call initiation.

The more general goal is to experiment with ways to converse and share data from the browser itself. WebRTC enables realtime chat in any webpage without plugins, which is of course valuable. But as the user's agent, the browser (or phone) is in a better position to create and remember links and social connections than any individual page you visit. More efficient and more private than the click-tracking social networks currently do.

Mozilla would also like to provide an alternative to large web silos like Facebook and Google, so part of the experiment is establishing the necessary server-side supports of a WebRTC service.