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Latest Dev Chromium build no longer compatible with Google Hangouts?
The change was apparently at Google's end. If you alter the UA string to remove the Edg/ component, Google Meet works as before:
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-edge-chromium-suddenly-stops-working-google-meetIt looks as if all that is needed is an addition to the collection of domains that work best with Chrome:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-new-microsoft-edge-sometimes-impersonates-other-browsers/
The change was apparently at Google's end. If you alter the UA string to remove the Edg/ component, Google Meet works as before:
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-edge-chromium-suddenly-stops-working-google-meet
It looks as if all that is needed is an addition to the collection of domains that work best with Chrome:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/the-new-microsoft-edge-sometimes-impersonates-other-browsers/
- Thanks so much for the reply, Noel Burgess.
Can we manually edit that config file that it uses? Or just change the user agent each time I want to use Google Hangouts?- Eric_Lawrence
Microsoft
ianwuk The user-agent spoofing code is not user-configurable (it's pushed from Microsoft's servers). There are a variety of automatic UA-spoofing extensions available for Chromium-derived browsers, but we expect that this issue will get resolved soon.
- Thanks Eric_Lawrence for taking the time to reply - much appreciated! Microsoft help have also acknowlewdged this and say that they are trying to work on something. I guess we will see.
