Yep. You can't use google hangouts without chrome. I've seen other websites (non...

krallja · on June 21, 2018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364039 says Hangouts’ usable in firefox once more.

phyzome · on June 21, 2018

I can tell you that it's pretty touch and go. They don't even support screensharing in Chromium, did you know that?

Meet did start to work in latest Firefox recently, and then this week they broke mic audio. -.-

filomeno · on June 21, 2018

Well, at least this new IE is open-source, cross-platform, and way better than that browser which reached a 90% usage peak some time ago.

Joking aside, I've never really known the difference between Google Talk, Hangouts, etc, but I regularly chat with my contacts from the Gmail website, using Firefox, without any problem so far.