2016-03-01 23:55 GMT+02:00 Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When you join you're prompted to either use your computer or use a phone >> connection; if you choose computer, you then are given the chance to enable >> or disable the camera and mic before the connection actually starts. >> > > Unfortunately, if you choose computer and aren't using Chrome,[1] you have > to install a browser plugin that people I trust say is not secure.
Secure or not, why do I have to download and extract an archive, instead of using the browser's addon system? I don't know about price or freedom (can't find the source code either) but as far as ease of use is concerned, it lags way behind Hangouts. > > [1]: Some people have said that it also works with Chromium installed from > Ubuntu, but last time I tried it only pretends to work[2] for Chromium > installed from Debian. Yeah, no luck on opensuse either. Strainu > [2]: "Pretends to work" meaning it looks like it joined but you don't > actually get any audio or video. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Senior Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
