I used Hangouts intensively for video daily meetings throughout a software project that spanned for several months - on different machines (on my work laptop, m

I used Hangouts intensively for video daily meetings throughout a software project that spanned for several months - on different machines (on my work laptop, mobile phone, sometimes my home PC). These meetings weren't big - typically 3 to 5 people - but when it worked for everyone at once, without reconnecting, rebooting etc., we cheered. This was an unusual occurence. I had Hangouts crash - especially on Android - I had it request a browser plugin to be installed over and over again, and I never managed to get it to work on Firefox (switching to a different browser for Hangouts only proved easier), I had no audio, or distorted audio, or people dropping out of calls... I'm glad your user experience wasn't as abysmal as ours, or rcheu's, but in my opinion you're a lucky one One good feature it has is that it recognizes keyboard tapping, and suggests you put yourself on mute when it's detected