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Google Meet used to be pretty bad a few years ago but it is totally fine now. I use it every day for work. I trust Chrome's hardening more than most other apps

Google Meet used to be pretty bad a few years ago but it is totally fine now. I use it every day for work. I trust Chrome's hardening more than most other apps including Zoom. Edit: Ok actually some Meet complaints: Weird useless white space in the UI. Doesn't put people's faces at the top of the window closer to the camera (will push them to the bottom and put screen share above). Very annoying settings UI. Generally doesn't work well when the window is small. No floating window option. No option to rearrange participant tiles. Probably 100 more like that, but it's still tolerable.

jwrallie 3y ago
I had the opposite experience, I tried to attend a Google Meet recently by using my Linux PC and Firefox, and could not get it to work at all. So I changed quickly to my iPad and Safari, also no go. My friend using Chrome on Windows on the table just next of mine could attend just fine. Zoom just works on both of my devices.
- hedgehog 3y ago
  I treat it as Chrome-only (or Gmail app on mobile), just like Zoom effectively only works in the Zoom client. It seems like in typical navel-gazing fashion Google only tests in Chrome.
  - scruple 3y ago
    Tangential but it's not just Google. Firefox is my daily driver but I am routinely pushed into Chrome, especially for work-related things (janky ass third party sites, HR sites, etc.). Very frustrating experience!
    - apocalyptic0n3 3y ago
      Ah, the good ol' days of enterprise apps only working in IE6. We never left it apparently. (I say "ol'" but I was dealing with the IE6 thing as recently as 2011)
  - callalex 3y ago
    Zoom works just fine in the browser.
    - hedgehog 3y ago
      YMMV, I haven't used it recently but it was pretty horrible last time I tried.
typon 3y ago
Meet is barely usable - I don't understand how Google can make such a garbage product when their other products are actually decent (Pixel, Search, Android etc.)
hedora 3y ago
Meet was better when it was just a wrapper around webrtc with optional login. It has steadily gotten worse ever since they started aggressively pushing users to log in, and also have phone browsers force redirect to the app (which is worse than the mobile web version was…)
- seanp2k2 3y ago
  You mean “Meet (original)” with the green camera logo, not the new “Meet” app with the multicolored logo that’s nearly visually identical to all the other GApps apps making it hard to discern which does what anymore? And also not “Duo” (no, not THAT Duo as in the 2FA thing), the other video conferencing app they replaced after replacing Google Talk with live video with Google Plus Huddle or wait was it Hangouts or actually both at one point?

jwrallie 3y ago

I had the opposite experience, I tried to attend a Google Meet recently by using my Linux PC and Firefox, and could not get it to work at all. So I changed quickly to my iPad and Safari, also no go. My friend using Chrome on Windows on the table just next of mine could attend just fine. Zoom just works on both of my devices.

hedgehog 3y ago
I treat it as Chrome-only (or Gmail app on mobile), just like Zoom effectively only works in the Zoom client. It seems like in typical navel-gazing fashion Google only tests in Chrome.
- scruple 3y ago
  Tangential but it's not just Google. Firefox is my daily driver but I am routinely pushed into Chrome, especially for work-related things (janky ass third party sites, HR sites, etc.). Very frustrating experience!
  - apocalyptic0n3 3y ago
    Ah, the good ol' days of enterprise apps only working in IE6. We never left it apparently. (I say "ol'" but I was dealing with the IE6 thing as recently as 2011)
- callalex 3y ago
  Zoom works just fine in the browser.
  - hedgehog 3y ago
    YMMV, I haven't used it recently but it was pretty horrible last time I tried.

typon 3y ago

Meet is barely usable - I don't understand how Google can make such a garbage product when their other products are actually decent (Pixel, Search, Android etc.)

hedora 3y ago

Meet was better when it was just a wrapper around webrtc with optional login. It has steadily gotten worse ever since they started aggressively pushing users to log in, and also have phone browsers force redirect to the app (which is worse than the mobile web version was…)

seanp2k2 3y ago
You mean “Meet (original)” with the green camera logo, not the new “Meet” app with the multicolored logo that’s nearly visually identical to all the other GApps apps making it hard to discern which does what anymore? And also not “Duo” (no, not THAT Duo as in the 2FA thing), the other video conferencing app they replaced after replacing Google Talk with live video with Google Plus Huddle or wait was it Hangouts or actually both at one point?