• Version: 0.26.0
• Platform: Firefox Quantum / Chromium
• Subsystem: swarm, pubsub, transports

Type: Bug / Enhancement

Severity: High

Description:

There's a good amount of pitfalls with the js-ipfs transports in the browser today.
Bundled with 0.26.0 are:

• libp2p-websockets
• libp2p-webrtc-star
• libp2p-railing

libp2p-webrtc-star

As in #950, today libp2p-webrtc-star is crashing the browser.

Possible solutions:

• Connection Closing Connection Closing #962
  Would be good to have, but has no implementation yet.
• libp2p-websocket-star Bring libp2p-websocket-star to the Transports family! 🌟 libp2p/js-libp2p#122
  Has seen a fair amount of work, but has open issues before it can be released.
• Not using libp2p-webrtc-star.
  This will mean you lose pubsub capabilities and run exclusively off of the bootstrap servers or manual connections to an IPFS daemon.