On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:25:42AM +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just to state it here, this bug was introduced in
>
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-chromium/pkg-chromium.git/commit/debian/master_preferences?id=625a96d9c368400f1e0b19cdb74fbcc1d4860948
>
> + "hardware": {
> + "audio_capture_enabled": false
> + },
>
> And is Debian only. Can you please explain why it should be correct?
I ran into the same issue and it's quite a usability nightmare: Anyone trying
to use the microphone (e.g. for a video conference) gets an notification that
the microphone is non-available and when going to the preferences setting
one can grant access but that change is silently dropped, the microphone still
doesn't work and when entering the dialogue again it's blocked again.
I also don't see why this was done? Chromium already allows to configure
the access to the microphone for websites within it's dialogues, so why
is that needed?
Cheers,
Moritz
