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by oninojak 4632 days ago
Seems nice but turns out to be the worst kind of service: instead of offering the marketed video chat, clicking 'go'displays a big advertisement for google chrome. I really hate those 'free' product that try to push chrome on you.

So I tried again in firefox (because I value privacy too much to ever install google products), and now I have a box with "connecting to room..." accompanied by a sad attempt to give away my data to google analytics and that's it.

So much for "copy. paste. video chat.", more like "relinquish your privacy to google, do that again, copy, paste, hope this will work".

I'm sure I'm happy web browsers are getting the ability to control webcams and watch as your surf the web.
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tomtheengineer 4632 days ago
Sorry you had a bad experience. It does work in Firefox, although there are bugs in the current stable version (which is why we are encouraging Chrome). Specifically, two nasty ones are audio echo (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=916331) and audio latency (up to 10 seconds: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785584).

What version of Firefox are you using? What OS?

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