Google Meet
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
7warn against
Dec 13, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“it renders a nice separate window with mute/unmute controls”
“switched to Google Meet (which does work in Firefox.)”
Caveats and dissent
“NEVER have I seen such a bad production bug from google.”
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“Google Meet doesn’t let me hook at any RTCPeerConnection APIs at all.”
“Meet has no solution for that”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I worked on shipping it to Chromium, WebRTC and Google Meet many years ago”
shipped AV1 to Chromium, WebRTC and Google Meet years agoon “The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Spec…”
Threads where it came up
- France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc. 2 mentions
- Firefox Enterprise 1 mention
- Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board? 1 mention
- Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers 1 mention
- The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification) 1 mention
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent 1 mention
Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 16
“I could not get audio on Firefox”
“NEVER have I seen such a bad production bug from google.”
“Google Meet is definitely not going to perform better outside Chrome”
“it renders a nice separate window with mute/unmute controls”
“Google Meet doesn’t let me hook at any RTCPeerConnection APIs at all.”
“Meets isn't actually horrible now”
“both teams and meet can be launched from a browser”
“Meet has no solution for that”
https://xcancel.com/lellouchenico/status/2015775970330882319 Which itself links to: https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/2167301-la-france-veut-remplacer-microsoft-teams-et-google-meet-par-visio-un-outil-souverain-pour-les-appels-video.html
“if you don't use Chrome it is honestly a fairly bad experience”
Screw teams. I had a meeting on teams for the first time ever so I decided to use safari, my designated un touched browser on my mac, to use teams in order to maximize compatibility. The thing kept shutting off my webcam every two seconds. I’d turn it on then it would shut off two seconds later. We switched to zoom for the remainder of the meeting. Google’s offering isn’t much better either. I tried the same thing, g
“A2A clients (Slack, Google Meet, considering email)”
“haven't had any issues across Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams”
“video backgrounds in Google Meet on Chrome are broken with nVidia GPUs and Wayland”
“switched to Google Meet (which does work in Firefox.)”
“we spoke on a Google meet call recently”