Macbook Pro Light Just Came on in Gmail.com

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I tried to use google voice to make a call. When I clicked call and it connected, the green light came on for a half second or less.

Didn't happen on the next call.

What happened?

EDIT:

Reopened Safari and retried a call from gmail.com. Same thing happened. Sketchy.

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Probing the hardware? May be a dumb attempt to gauge the camera and mic capabilities, might not necessarily be nefarious. Here's a hint, may be try clearing cookies/web cache and trying again and see if it does it again.

Hm, this is after Google "merged the google voice calling into hangouts", which does require camera capabilities.

It only happens on the first call too.

Current network conditions and device hardware on the other end of the call supported video for the first call, but not for the second?

I don't think Google call does video, does it? It was the same number, which did support Facetime, hm.

Tested again with the phone on, green light still only flashes.

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