The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by bookaway on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @09:09PM (#27828322)

Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Zoom -- on Chromium, they all hijack and increase your microphone volume without you knowing. It's infuriating. Just thinking about it pisses me off. You have to have the volume control open and have a live tug-of-war with the app while you're talking.

Firefox, either intentionally or unintentionally, does not let Meet do this. I say Meet, because none of the others work on Firefox anyway.

But the recent Meet update is broken on Firefox, so yeah, there goes that.

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Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by yoz-y on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @03:34AM (#27830607)

Skype has a checkbox to stop it from doing that, but then ignores the setting and does it anyway. Ruined a few podcast recordings for me.

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Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by nullify88 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:17AM (#27829959)

Krisp, a noise cancelling application, is able to lock the microphone levels. I believe this works even without it on / without the trial timer counting down.

But yes, going to that kinda length to prevent those applications from messing with the gain control is absurd

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Re:The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) by cycomanic on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:08AM (#27830168)

Zoom works without problems on Firefox here (Linux). The browser version tends to be much better than the app, which crashes for me consistently.

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