You’re right, I can confirm the feature does indeed work on Firefox by changing the useragent string. However, this introduces other issues such as input devices not being detected which makes normal use of Meet difficult. For now, there seems to be nothing else to do other than waiting for Google to enable this on Firefox.
Awesome, I’ll have a look again. Last time I tried changing the useragent (it was a while ago), the whole Google Meet website had some issues and it didn’t work. Maybe the specific useragent you use also has an impact.
Are you using a useragent changer?
I am still getting this:
This extension blurs the entire camera feed instead of only the background, so it’s not really a solution unfortunately.
I’ve also tried a simple useragent change in Firefox, but the feature still didn’t work. That leads me to think they’re using browser features that are not available on Firefox.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that Google’s background blur implementation has better edge detection than apps like Zoom, and it handles things like curly hairstyles more gracefully.
My university forced us to switch from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 and from BigBlueButton to Teams for online classes probably because Microsoft offered them an irresistible deal. It was a really annoying and user-hostile process for everyone.
I can’t believe they named their browser “Comodo Dragon” lol
Microsoft has been on a shameless crusade recently to make people adopt Edge. Upon launch, thier Bing AI had a rather absurd requirement to use Edge to access it.
Google Meet’s background blur and visual filters do not work on Firefox. MS Teams straight up says that Firefox is not a supported browser. These decisions might be intentional on the part of Google and Microsoft, but to the average user of these popular products, it looks like a Firefox problem.
I like USB-C especially when it clicks.
I feel this is partly caused by designers working with huge screens and forgetting that smaller screens exist.
For stuff like that, I always use this bookmarklet which instantly zaps any sticky elements.
Would be cool if it said anything other than something like “I’m sorry I do not understand your request”.
There are also those headers that auto-hide when you scroll down, but pop back up at the slightest upward scroll, blocking the line at the top of the screen that you were trying to read.
I wouldn’t be surprised if those numbers are made up. Just dark patterns to make it seem like the product is hot.
Though I’ve found it kinda interesting when websites show little messages like “Someone from <country> just bought <item>!”.
Literally why do news websites play some random unrelated video when I’m trying to read an article…
I used a shopping website today, where mousing over the header pops up a fullscreen navigation menu, and the only way to close it is to mouse over an empty part of the header. Made me do a lot of cursor gymnastics when trying to switch tabs while avoiding the damn menu.
Some websites like Behance try to ‘fix’ this by making the footer sticky, but their footer links are useless anyway. It just wastes more screen space along with the sticky header.
Agreed. So many websites want you to sign up for their newsletter before you’ve even read the first line of text.
For me it’s Google search’s tab order. They always switch up the tabs for web, images, videos, etc. depending on what you search for. It makes the experience very unpredictable and annoying.
Recently they’ve also started putting related searches next to the tabs 🤦
Same, I am yet to find a website notification that is actually useful to me.