Seeing the level of shitty ported Linux programs I see this as a pro.
> Connected to your google account meaning I'll need to juggle several google accounts to keep my personal and business chats separate
This would be easier with Skype if you have 2 Skype accounts?
When using Chrome:
> - Gets grouped with my other browser windows in my taskbar, making it hard to find
Menu -> More tools -> Add to desktop
> Seeing the level of shitty ported Linux programs I see this as a pro.
Well, google manages to make a shitty Linux port of the plugin, so they've got their bases covered there.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=363358
to some extent. depending on how you start a hangouts, you have no idea what account it's going to start under. The number of times I've gotten on a work call on my personal account because google felt it should use that one
These problems are largely resolved by using chrome. Pop out any tab into its own window, notifications will work reliably, the security model is far stronger, and most important of all: when one tab crashes, it's an independent process so it can't take any other tab with it.
I use this every day without seeing any of these issues.
* No desktop client
* Connected to your google account meaning I'll need to juggle several google accounts to keep my personal and business chats separate
Just the fact it doesn't have a native desktop client makes it unusable. I know there are workarounds I can use like nativefier but it's still not as smooth as a desktop app.
Running in the browser:
- Gets grouped with my other browser windows in my taskbar, making it hard to find
- Notifications might or might not work, depending on firefox's whims
- If for any reason firefox crashes all your communication crashes with it
- Susceptible to every single browser bug that allows silent loading of extensions that scrape all your data