Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Google Hangouts Video Call - Allow both talk plugins...

Ok, I just spent 30 minutes tinkering with Google Hangouts (Fedora, Chrome) to try to get video calling working.  Every time I tried to initiate a video call, a new window would pop up with a message that read:

Select "Allow" for both Google Talk plugins in order to access the video call.

Of course, there isn't anything to click to enable the plugins.  Weird.

Eventually, I found out that by telling Chrome to automatically run all plugins, it would work.

chrome://settings/content

 Scroll down to "Plug-ins" and select "Run automatically (recommended)"

Once that's done, start a video call; works fine.

Since I'm paranoid, I went back and changed the Plug-ins setting back to "Click to play" and, guess what?  Video calling still works!
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  1. Vicky AgarwalaMay 14, 2014 at 7:22 PM

    I have tried this step. but still 'Select "Allow" for both Google Talk plugins in order to access the video call.' message is coming.

    Also i have allowed the both google talk plugin by going to 'about:plugins' page on the browser but still 'Select "Allow" for both Google Talk plugins in order to access the video call.' message is coming.

    I am on windows 7 Dell Vostro 1015. Please suggest some solution.

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