skype web call support?
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I've been having a look at Skype Web with Vivaldi, and it's been telling me that "Audio and video calls are not supported on your browser." - does anyone know if there is a way to make calls work?
I'm having trouble finding any settings or information that would help me with this, so any help would be appreciated. -
Hello there,
We will healp each other, for some unknown reason, no one gives me the address, can you do it.
Is during the login the error appear? -
@lamarca thanks for the reply! the website is https://web.skype.com/ - login is not a problem. When I go to a conversation window/tab, I can see the call buttons are greyed out, and when i hover the cursor over them, I get that message about audio and video calls not being supported on the browser. Everything else seems to work fine.
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@orangeE I am a little late, sorry. The web site is blocking Vivaldi. The fix didn't work.
Our User Agent is like the shot below:Removing Vivaldi from the UA should work
I might be outdated. There are a several
fewUA switcher. One Dev recommends this one:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg
I prefer command line over extensions
$ /usr/bin/vivaldi-snapshot --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3683.77 Safari/537.36' &
Edited: grammar
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Thanks for your input, paulenglish! I'll have to check out Brave, it looks worth trying out.
I tried the User Agent extension too, it seems to only help in the case that the website doesn't want to run completely, but doesn't resolve the issue of audio/video call support.
Thank you, though, for trying to help, lamarca -
@orangeE You are welcome. My spoofing was correct then.
I just found it: -
Vivaldi v2.5, the problem still remains.
Maybe there are other ways (besides changing UA) to make the stupid skype really believe that Vivaldi is Chrome 73+? -
Browser sniffing is discrimination. There is more, by changing our original UA, Vivaldi doesn't appears on the browser statistics.
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Microsoft has done enough shit during the last 5-7 years.
Time goes by, and they don't think to stop.
I've already abandoned Skype after they killed its desktop version a few weeks ago (still choosing between the alternatives: Wire, Linphone and qTox), but sometimes I have to use at least its web version, as unfortunately it used on my job for meetings.
I supposed to have one today actually, and guess what, what a surprise, I failed to join it, because of all this Microsoft's ****** ******, as Skype audio/video calls support neither Opera nor Vivaldi!
The methods people used before no longer work, neither UA Switcher extensions nor changing the UA via browser launch from command line.
Now its only the functionless Edge that I don't have on my Windows 7 anyway, or Chrome the garbage that I will not let anywhere close to my computer.
Looks like the solution could be that either they in Microsoft finally find the remnants of their conscience and make Skype For Web support all other browsers, or something gets changed in the browser itself on the level other than UA, so that Skype really-really thinks that it is opened in Chrome 73+ (but ofc not sure if this is something that is possible).
No words. What a bloody shame. -
Old topic, but is there any news to this issue?
Still can't make any calls with Skype for web. -
@tammkaar Works fine, here. I can't think what to suggest.
What exact problem are you having?
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@Ayespy Problem is that i can't make video or audio calls. Pic from Skype:
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@tammkaar Bizarre. I get the notifier that I have no camera or mic, I plug in my camera/mic combo and then things simply work. I don't know what the difference could be. Let me try a couple of my other installs...
Edit: OK, in one of my other installs, it opened my skype desktop app instead of mediating it thru the browser. Then I closed the browser, re-started it, and this time it set up the meeting in the browser. Hmmm... I think it must be getting a plugin from the desktop app?
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@tammkaar Tried to remove microsoft/skype cookies&cache?
Do you use extensions? (some are known to create issues on sites) -
Yes, i tried removing cookies and cache, no change. Also i disabled uBlock and Vivaldi's contet blocker, still no change. I have no other extensions for blocking purposes.
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I have now tried 3 other Windows 10 computers with different OS versions and still get the same result.
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@tammkaar Checked in padlock (urlbar) > site settings if the webcam/mic permissions are enabled for the site?
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@Hadden89 Yes, both are manually enabled.
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Same problem here
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@VivaldiReming I wonder if each of you have the desktop Skype app, and allow it to be signed in. That appears to be an essential ingredient to Vivaldi being able to negotiate Skype.