Google starts blocking Edge

As reported by Jez Corden, Google does not allow the new Edge to use their ‘meet’ service.

https://meet.google.com/

Intentional or Google’s first ‘oopsy‘?

Conversation 16 comments

  • simont

    Premium Member
    26 April, 2019 - 5:54 am

    <p>On a related note, is anybody experiencing problems with Gmail and New Edge, I can't seem to select and ask actions in Gmail using new Edge but Chrome is fine.</p>

    • Matthias Götzke

      26 April, 2019 - 7:31 am

      <blockquote><a href="#423517"><em>In reply to simont:</em></a><em> works fine here with edgeium</em></blockquote><p><br></p>

  • Matthias Götzke

    26 April, 2019 - 7:32 am

    <p>Yeah they preach feature detection but since that is often quite hard (large testing matrix for starters) people fallback to other simple tests.</p>

  • Chris_Kez

    Premium Member
    26 April, 2019 - 9:32 am

    <p>We're a large G Suite client and we've been telling Google this is an issue for a year to no avail. A few of our larger clients use Edge as their default browser and they're not able to join meetings that we set up so we end up having to ask them to add a Skype for Business invite to the meeting so we can connect. </p>

    • Bats

      26 April, 2019 - 7:32 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#423565">In reply to Chris_Kez:</a></em></blockquote><p>Wait a second….</p><p><br></p><p>For one thing, you have had an issue with the "New Edge" for over a year? LOL…how did that happen? Did you time travel?</p><p><br></p><p>Second, (old) Edge is a very very lousy browser. I am a corporate attorney who deals with 5 large named insurance corporations, to which 3 them are globals offices world wide. NONE of them use Edge. Their IT guys don't even make that browser available and only let the employees use Internet Expolorer, Chrome, or Firefox. </p><p><br></p><p>How your clients use Edge is beyond me. Did your company recommend Edge to them? I know 15 web platform developers who maintain huge databases, one of which was used to analyze the Hillary emails. None of them, not one of them uses Edge.</p>

      • jimchamplin

        Premium Member
        26 April, 2019 - 8:52 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#423626">In reply to Bats:</a></em></blockquote><p>It’s impossible for him to have had an issue with Edge 75 for that time. Occam’s Razor deals with that absurdity. </p><p><br></p><p>The issue is clearly with Classic Edge.</p>

        • ecumenical

          27 April, 2019 - 1:26 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#423630">In reply to jimchamplin:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Regardless, the issue also applies to new Edge/Edgium. Google tells you to download Chrome or Firefox if you want to use Meet with the message "<span style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);">Meet doesn't work on your browser"</span></p>

      • madthinus

        Premium Member
        27 April, 2019 - 3:27 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#423626">In reply to Bats:</a></em></blockquote><p>Believe he is referring to the current Edge. </p>

      • Chris_Kez

        Premium Member
        27 April, 2019 - 1:28 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#423626">In reply to Bats:</a></em></blockquote><p>I misread the OP's sentence; apologies. Obviously they couldn't have been using new Edge for a year. But thanks for being a dick rather than alighting on the obvious explanation that the other forum members arrived at.</p>

  • Bats

    26 April, 2019 - 7:39 pm

    <p>Oh cool….the official new Chrome-Edge came out?</p>

  • Vladimir Carli

    Premium Member
    27 April, 2019 - 6:41 am

    <p>meet.google.com does not work with Safari either</p>

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    27 April, 2019 - 12:48 pm
    • anderb

      Premium Member
      28 April, 2019 - 1:36 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#423688">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p>Well, they are blocking it, they're just claiming it is unintentional. They have a 'whitelist' of browsers they allow and both 'classic' Edge and 'new' Edge are not on it with the promise that one day the 'new' Edge will be added at a time of their choosing i.e. not because of any technical reason.</p><p><br></p><p>It would be interesting to know why they refuse to allow 'classic' Edge to access the service. After all, it has been released for some time.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

      • jimchamplin

        Premium Member
        28 April, 2019 - 7:27 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#423791">In reply to anderb:</a></em></blockquote><p>Does OG Edge support the full WebRTC API? It’s possible that the old one doesn’t, or has some other technical issue relating to the tech used, which would keep it off the whitelist. </p>

        • anderb

          Premium Member
          30 April, 2019 - 8:21 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#423880">In reply to jimchamplin:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Supposedly, according to Windows architect Bernard Aboba, "Edge supports the WebRTC 1.0 API natively". Anecdotally it can be made to work with Meet if the user agent is manipulated.</p>

    • Lordbaal

      30 April, 2019 - 10:09 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#423688">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p>That's BS. Because Edge supported WebRTC</p><p>If you google, Introducing WebRTC 1.0 and interoperable real-time communications in Microsoft Edge.</p><p>I don't know why I can't post links. But Google is blocking it.</p>

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