Safari Hack: Setting Your Google Meet Background

[jnathsf]

For those of you who love Safari but switch to Chrome for Google Meet's background selection feature, here's an easy fix. You can make Safari impersonate Google Chrome by altering its user agent. Just go to the 'Develop' option in the menu, select 'User Agent', and then opt for 'Google Chrome'.

I'll let the readers speculate on why Google does this.

[vkondenko]

I used ChatGPT to help me build an Electron wrapper for Google Meet to avoid using Chrome. Another problem it solves is that it only uses my work account, whereas a browser would always switch to my personal account just because it’s first in the list.