Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
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Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#2Same goes for Teams.
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#3Same goes for Teams.
Or Notion.app or any electron app to be honest.
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#4Was thinking this was something new. But is two year old article.
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
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Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#6Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#7I do this anyway, as it simply works better for me on GNU/Linux. Weirdly, I've found audio configuration and performance to be more reliable through my _web browser_ than the Zoom desktop client.
Additionally, and this may just be my rather old laptop, I've had my whole system freeze when trying to load the Zoom client. Even if that's a fixed problem now, using the web version makes me worry less. The #1 thing I need my meeting solution to be is dependable.
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#8I normally prefer browser to app. Why would I want to install yet more junk software, which might be doing who-knows-what, if I can get the same result without adding extra weird, untrustworthy stuff to my systems? This applies to PCs and much more so to phones - on phones standard of "trusted" is rather lower, and increasing the number apps has real downsides (battery, performance, etc)
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#9I normally prefer browser to app. Why would I want to install yet more junk software, which might be doing who-knows-what, if I can get the same result without adding extra weird, untrustworthy stuff to my systems? This applies to PCs and much more so to phones - on phones standard of "trusted" is rather lower, and increasing the number apps has real downsides (battery, performance, etc)
I just realized this has been mysterious to me forever. Why is software on phones so bad?
Re: Always use Zoom in a browser. Avoid the app (2020)
#10Zoom does a pretty good job of hiding the link to join a meeting with your browser, only showing it (quickly) after you download their installer, and more often after a delay of several seconds. I poked around briefly and couldn’t find any hidden links that I could expose by a quick console script, though I haven’t looked through their client-side JavaScript yet. Anyone have any shortcuts or bookmarklets to make it easier to launch a meeting directly in the web client?