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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2017
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OS: Linux
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Type: Bug



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Screen-sharing sites don't work at all in China

Reported by patra...@gmail.com, Sep 7 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0

Example URL:
https://appear.in/

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Travel to China (that's important!)
2. Go to https://appear.in/ or https://room.co/ or https://talky.io/ or any other webrtc video chat that also allows screen sharing
3. Talk with someone else using one of these chats. It works.
4. That other person asks you to share screen. You have never done it before.
5. You click the "share screen" button. It says (it's just a <div>) that you should click "add" to install the extension.

What is the expected behavior?
I should be able to click "add" (and it works outside China, or over an illegal VPN).

What went wrong?
There is nowhere to click "add". So I can't install the extension and can't share my screen.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes 

Chrome version: 53.0.2785.92 (64-bit)  Channel: n/a
OS Version: Arch
Flash Version: 

Blame Chinese government for their firewall that blocks users from downloading any extensions. Because such governments and firewalls exist, and because Firefox does not require any (impossible-to-download) extensions for screen-sharing, please consider removing the requirement to install an extension. Or maybe, as Firefox did, make sure that popular WebRTC screen-sharing sites are implicitly granted the permission to access the screen. You can take the list from the "media.getusermedia.screensharing.allowed_domains" Firefox preference.
 
Components: -Blink Blink>WebRTC
Owner: blum@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
blum: It sounds like this is a product question. 

Comment 3 by blum@chromium.org, Sep 8 2016

Cc: niklase@chromium.org

Comment 4 by blum@chromium.org, Feb 27 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)
I don't see how the WebRTC team should be able to provide a fix for this as long as screen sharing is only enabled through an extension.

Comment 5 by patra...@gmail.com, Feb 27 2017

Here is how: preload popular screen-sharing extensions. Or rethink it so that extensions downloadable only from google.com are not required.

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