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> that it does not really work with Google Meet

It does sound like a feature, not a bug though...

My "favourite" feature about Meet is that it takes me through all these self-satisfied feature announcement popups to explain to me how all these different things work. every. single. call.

I use meet as seldom as possible (basically just when a client, partner org etc sets up a call) but it still adds up to at least 2 or 3 a week at minimum. I wasn't interested in those feature popups the first time I'm definitely not interested now after you've been showing them to me 2 or 3 times a week for the last year or so. There doesn't seem any way to make it stop though.

Careful, someone at Google reading this will green light a new version. Google has gone from talk to hangouts to meet and gotten even more proprietary with each iteration. I’m sure there is someone itching to create yet a new name/version that would have new draconian DRM. Heck, they might even try and bring something like ActiveX back if they knew it would make a users experience worse.

This. Meet works better with Chrome, so I used to have chrome for Meet only, and Firefox for everything else.

It has become better in the last year or so. I used to have the same setup but currently Meet on FF works without issues for me.

Yes, it's better, but you cannot share a browser tab, only a window or the full desktop.

Edit to add that the suggestion of using Orion for everyday browsing and FF or Chrome/EDge for Google Meet is totally reasonable, but somehow I find quite a lot of friction doing that.

I have chromium on my computer for meet and microsoft teams. The rest I do with firefox.

I’ve so consistently had issues with Google products on Firefox, that I can’t help but feel it’s intentional.

At this point I keep a chromium based browser around as my google apps portal, and nothing else.

Change your user agent so it looks like chrome, life is better then.

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