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You can still. There's a small dark pattern to discourage it, though. You go to the URL for the call, click the button to launch the app, and when that fails,

by neilv 9mo ago

You can still. There's a small dark pattern to discourage it, though. You go to the URL for the call, click the button to launch the app, and when that fails, you see a small link to do the call in the Web browser.

jmathai 9mo ago
Small? Gawd, I hate doing that for every single Zoom call I have to join.
QuantumNomad_ 9mo ago
I already have Zoom installed on the work computer but for some reason it has started doing this weird thing where every time I click a Zoom meeting link in Google Calendar, Google Chrome downloads a copy of the Zoom installer at the same time as it opens the already installed Zoom. I didn’t notice until I already had six recently downloaded copies of the installer in the Downloads folder. No idea why this happens. But it’s probably part of the crappy pushiness of Zoom to get people to install their app that makes them trigger a download of the installer because either they are not detecting that Zoom is already installed at the right time, or they are so eager to download the installer that they don’t even care about whether or not you already have it installed. I’ve disliked Zoom since the beginning for their antics, and the only reason I have it installed is because I have to for the meetings at work, and the work computer belongs to the company I work for anyway, not to me. I would never install Zoom on my own computer.
- frizlab 9mo ago
  Tangentially related, I think Safari detects duplicated downloads and only keep one
iammrpayments 9mo ago
I had to do it once and is extremely difficult, I don’t remember the details but I think you have to do dozens of extra steps on your account configuration and it won’t work on your phone unless you request the desktop version of the website.
- IG_Semmelweiss 9mo ago
  I'm used to it by now. Click on the meeting, where you will land on a download landpage. Then click the big download blue button in the center of the screen. WHen you click it a link will appear in the 2nd row below the blue button, something like "continue from browser", click on that, and you are golden
IG_Semmelweiss 9mo ago
every once in a while, someone will ask me to screenshare on a shared monitor, then i will have to explain i cannot , because i am on zoom browser. Its always great to see the reactions that gathers. Its a true rainbow: bemusement, curiosity, exasperation, outright suspicion...and everything in between!
- digiown 9mo ago
  It works just fine? At least on Linux wayland it works in both firefox and chromium
chrismorgan 9mo ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/zoom-redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/zoom-redirect... handles the necessary skip. All it needs is to redirect /j/* to /wc//join (and /s/ to /wc/*/start).

by neilv 9mo ago

jmathai 9mo ago

Small? Gawd, I hate doing that for every single Zoom call I have to join.

QuantumNomad_ 9mo ago

I already have Zoom installed on the work computer but for some reason it has started doing this weird thing where every time I click a Zoom meeting link in Google Calendar, Google Chrome downloads a copy of the Zoom installer at the same time as it opens the already installed Zoom. I didn’t notice until I already had six recently downloaded copies of the installer in the Downloads folder. No idea why this happens. But it’s probably part of the crappy pushiness of Zoom to get people to install their app that makes them trigger a download of the installer because either they are not detecting that Zoom is already installed at the right time, or they are so eager to download the installer that they don’t even care about whether or not you already have it installed. I’ve disliked Zoom since the beginning for their antics, and the only reason I have it installed is because I have to for the meetings at work, and the work computer belongs to the company I work for anyway, not to me. I would never install Zoom on my own computer.

frizlab 9mo ago
Tangentially related, I think Safari detects duplicated downloads and only keep one

iammrpayments 9mo ago

I had to do it once and is extremely difficult, I don’t remember the details but I think you have to do dozens of extra steps on your account configuration and it won’t work on your phone unless you request the desktop version of the website.

IG_Semmelweiss 9mo ago
I'm used to it by now. Click on the meeting, where you will land on a download landpage. Then click the big download blue button in the center of the screen. WHen you click it a link will appear in the 2nd row below the blue button, something like "continue from browser", click on that, and you are golden

IG_Semmelweiss 9mo ago

every once in a while, someone will ask me to screenshare on a shared monitor, then i will have to explain i cannot , because i am on zoom browser. Its always great to see the reactions that gathers. Its a true rainbow: bemusement, curiosity, exasperation, outright suspicion...and everything in between!

digiown 9mo ago
It works just fine? At least on Linux wayland it works in both firefox and chromium

chrismorgan 9mo ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/zoom-redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/zoom-redirect... handles the necessary skip. All it needs is to redirect /j/* to /wc//join (and /s/ to /wc/*/start).