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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2018
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Hangouts cannot dial out or accept calls due to microphone permission

Reported by gmine...@gmail.com, Jan 27 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.119 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
hangouts.google.com

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Bring up hangouts.google.com or the desktop app
2. Click on a contact in the Contacts list
3. Click on the phone button to call that contact
4. A small, blank popup happens
5. A message appears on the Hangout window noting that Hangouts needs permission to access the microphone and to click the Allow button at the top of the browser, but it's nowhere to be found. And no way to satisfy this request, though the Hangouts setting for Microphone is already set to Allow. The only available action is to "Cancel".

What is the expected behavior?
There has never been this message before. Clicking the phone icon calls the contact, or clicking the icon for an incoming call answers it.

What went wrong?
Upgrading from Chrome 63 to 64.0 is the only thing that changed. This upgrade broke it and it needs to be fixed. This problem also presents a spike in cpu usage from the usual 2% to between 15-25%. So there's another underlying problem there that needs remedy. This problem presents in the browser, in the desktop Hangouts app, and within Gmail.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? Yes 63

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 64.0.3282.119  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: 

Hangouts works fine and as expected within IE v11.0 on my HP Touchsmart 610Q running Windows 7. No settings or config changes, just works as expected. Hangouts is not permitted to work in Firefox so that's ashame.
 
Labels: Needs-Triage-M64 Needs-Bisect
Cc: susanjun...@techmahindra.com
Labels: Triaged-ET Needs-Feedback
gminetos@ Thanks for the issue.

Tested this issue on Windows 10,7 and Mac OS 10.12.6 on the latest Canary 66.0.3334.0 and Stable 64.0.3282.119 and unable to reproduce the issue by following the steps mentioned in the original comment.

On placing a Hangouts call, can observe a popup appearing to allow/block microphone and camera. On clicking on Allow, could place the hangout call without any issues.
Attached is the screen shot for reference.

Request you to please retry the issue on a new chrome profile without ay flags/extensions and update the thread with the observations.

Thanks..
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Comment 3 by gmine...@gmail.com, Jan 29 2018

@susanjun: Thanks, when I disabled the Hangouts extension (v2017.1019.418.1) and restarted Chrome, then hangouts.google.com behaved as expected with no popups, no permissions request, it just worked like normal. Meg Wolf had commented similarly in the Chrome forum and that there was another version of the Hangouts extension (v2017.420.419.1) that did work properly. I don't have time this morning to check that out but at least the web version is working properly now.
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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jan 29 2018

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "susanjunia.boorgula@techmahindra.com" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
As per comment#3 we understood that the issue is no longer seen.

@Reporter: Could you please let us know if we can close this issue.

Thanks! 
Cc: viswatej...@techmahindra.com
Labels: Needs-Feedback
gminetos@ Is all well now? Can this issue be closed?

Comment 8 by gmine...@gmail.com, Feb 6 2018

Yes, using the old Hangouts extension mitigates the problem but that can't be a long-term solution. Hopefully the extension itself is fixed so this problem doesn't recur. 
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Comment 9 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Feb 6 2018

Cc: sc00335...@techmahindra.com
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "sc00335628@techmahindra.com" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Have you tried the 2018.123.418.1 extension? It is working correctly for me.
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Closing issue due to lack of feedback requested but not provided. If the issue still exists please open a new issue with the details requested.

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