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Recently, because of medical reasons, I sought to access a ZOOM session. I have an internal webcam which I do not normally use and setting up a webcam test I was greeted with this response "Your browser does not support features for accessing media devices. Please upgrade your browser or install another one." The webcam test does function properly on another browser. The version I have is 29.4.1 on a Windows 8.1 Operating system. Are there plans to add webcam functionality to Pale Moon, or is there some setting that I need to make on the current version? Thanks.

Mark Lee

If I remember correctly, webcam support is not provided at all with Pale Moon by design.
Maybe you can try with Basilisk.

No there are none. All video/audio calling tools rely on WebRTC which Pale Moon does not support or plan to.

I wouldn't rely on Basilisk for WebRTC features.. None of the major mainstream providers discriminating against it despite being fully complaint according to Google's own test suite.

Best to use a dedicated client, more so if it's a frequently used service. The dedicated client itself is just a Chrome wrapper around the original website anyway.

Agree using the Zoom client app is a better idea than trying to Zoom with a browser.

The dedicated client is just a Chrome wrapper around the website

Sigh, yeah, makes sense, too bad it's a single-purposed Chrome trojaned everywhere and not an actual client.

I had thought there were plugins for attending meetings? Guess not, because the only such I found were named "Scheduler". It could not be tested in Firefox because of the user-hostile login anti-feature. Username+Password+Captcha are not in a dialog box, not on an HTML form, and they disappear when the browser loses focus. That means the login can't be used with password vaults that switch focus from themselves back to the target browser window. Still need to start using tele-services that have actual privacy.

Bilbo47 wrote: ↑

2021-11-06, 00:07

I had thought there were plugins for attending meetings?

Yeah, in the good old days when NPAPI plugins weren't deprecated. That was the original and proper approach to rendering any sort of proprietary content, whether DRMed or supporting non open codecs like Quicktime or RealPlayer, and eventually just Flash. The same thing was used for Skype and Webex initially, until DRM got pushed into the HTML standard.