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Iron Contributor

Apr 25, 2019

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Latest Dev Chromium build no longer compatible with Google Hangouts?

Since upgrading to the latest Edge Chromium Dev build (75.0.131.0), if I click a link from Google Calendar to start a Google Meet meeting (Google Hangouts) it now says that the browser is not compati...

Noel Burgess
Apr 26, 2019
ianwuk

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/

Boarder2

Brass Contributor

May 03, 2019

Hope they can resolve this quickly as this limitation plus https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Issue-with-Google-meeting/m-p/498150 means I just flat out can't use Edge.

ianwuk
Iron Contributor
May 03, 2019
Boarder2

Here's how you can fix it, until MS support it officially.

1 - Install User Agent Switcher as an Edge Chromium extension from the Chrome Web Store https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher/clddifkhlkcojbojppdojfeeikdkgiae

2 - Edit the Google Chrome Windows user agent string to be:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.86 Safari/537.36

3 - Set the option inside the User Agent Switcher extension to remember the selected user agent at start-up.
- Joon Chang
  Former Employee
  May 04, 2019
  Google Hangouts should be working on Edge now and Google Meet fix is expected to be rolling in sometime later today.
  - ianwuk
    Iron Contributor
    May 04, 2019
    There's still an issue installing Chrome specific extensions.
    
    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Cannot-install-Google-Play-Books-extension-in-Chrome-Dev-75-0/m-p/512206#M2650