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We use Google Meet at work, and I use Firefox. The "Change background" feature was not "supported" in Firefox, then suddenly I could use it so I thought they f
by chakhs 5y ago
We use Google Meet at work, and I use Firefox.
The "Change background" feature was not "supported" in Firefox, then suddenly I could use it so I thought they finally implemented it for Firefox as it was working perfectly.
Two days later the feature disappeared, and I keep getting that "your browser doesn't support this feature" popup since.
- dietr1ch 5y agoThat sucks, but take the time to imagine what might be going on on the other side. There's a dev running an experiment to whitelist more combinations of the huge space of (Device, CPU, GPU, OS, OSVersion, Browser, BrowserVersion) to use that feature. What would you do after seeing that the metrics show that most of the users on your experiment had a bad experience? In that case you'd want to rollback your experiment right away and figure out what's wrong. You really expected all, if not most of the combinations you selected to actually work well, but it's apparently not the case.
- chakhs 5y agoyeah I'm over fetching indeed :') A/B testing sucks, they should've let me know it was an experiment, I had high hopes
- dietr1ch 5y agoYeah, there's definitely room for improvement there, but I feel that it'd only target more advanced users. I'd like that you could opt-in into being aware of the experiments you are running, and be allowed to opt-out early of experiments when they don't work, or sign-up to run them permanently (as long as they are actually running) if they work great. Although, letting users know about the experiments might also ruins some experiments as users could start assuming that the experiment really changes things. I imagine you can easily run a dummy experiment and have people talk about how much faster/slower their browser runs with it.