Windows 10: Google denies blocking its app Meet on Chromium-based Microsoft Edge

Google’s Chrome web browser has established a strong market dominance over other web browser and more and more developers are optimizing their websites for Chrome. Microsoft recently switched Edge’s backend to Chromium and many hoped this could improve overall compatibility with websites.

The preview builds of Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge are already available for the testers, but not everything is worked as originally expected. Few users recently noticed that Google Meet, a video conferencing web app has been blocked from opening on Microsoft Edge.

Some believed that Google purposefully blocked its app on Microsoft Edge, but the search engine giant has denied the allegations.

In the past few days, users reported that Google Meet prompted to download Chrome or Firefox as the service wouldn’t work with Microsoft’s new Edge browser that also uses Chromium as its base.

In a statement, Google has denied compatibility problems were anything but accidental.

“We view the increased adoption of Chromium and WebRTC as positive for the entire Unified Communications industry,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “With the recent release of developer previews for Edge, we are thrilled to be able to offer a new preview experience of Hangouts Meet, and we plan to officially support it once it becomes generally available,” the company added.

As Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the market, developers are more focused on creating compatibility with the platform than other small browsers. However, Microsoft’s decision to use Chromium as the browser base is likely to reduce these problems, at least with the non-Google products.

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Kindly also try to use a new InPrivate window and try to visit YouTube and Google again. Follow the steps below:

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Edge Chromium, the Reading List

on the Edge feedback forum at

I have posed the following question in response to an existing thread

I wanted to ask this more pointed question:-

　

Will the mooted "offline" Reading List feature that was included in Edge HTML but never fully activated be added to Edge Chromium?

(I did get one reply to a question I posed, I think back in 2015,on the promised offline capability that reply said simply and unequivocably

""At this time, the reading list is not available offline in Microsoft Edge, but we’re working on it for a future update"

　

In my opinion it is a pretty useless add on anyway. because in EdgeHTML it does nothing that adding a URL to the Favorites list already does and now tht Edge Chromium sensibly includes an Internet Exploder like facility to Save a webpage complete you can
save the whole webpage for off line viewing i.e.reading anyway