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Qwertio33
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April 19, 2022
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Why the Change for Chromebooks?

  • April 19, 2022
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I've been happily using the web interface on my Chromebook for quite some time. Now I see that it's not going to be supported anymore and I have to sue the app -- which has fewer features than I've been using.

 

Why are you cutting the features available for Chromebook users?

    Best answer by Bort

    Thank you! Unfortunately when I click that I see "No permission". Do you have to have a particular kind of account? 

    (No one else owns the account, but it's a free-level account)


    Access to that page is limited to admins and account owners. If you are on a free account, you would not have access to the account level settings, since there are no others on the account to manage. 

    If you are still having issues with getting the PWA to auto-launch on your Chromebook, I would suggest making sure the old ChromeOS app is deleted. 

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    Bort
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    Bort
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    April 19, 2022

    Hi @Qwertio33 


    Unfortunately, its not Zoom directly doing this. The Google team has decided to deprecate ChromeOS apps, meaning we are being forced to develop a replacement, which is the PWA. While it doesn't have ALL the same features as the old ChromeOS app, it does have many features the ChromeOS apps did not have and there are many more planned features and enhancements coming for the PWA. 

    Is there a particular feature you are missing after starting to use the PWA? 

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    Qwertio33Author
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    April 19, 2022

    Nothing I have needed yet, thank you for your reply. I just noticed other folks talking about the things they were missing.

     

    I haven't figured out how to make the PWA the default for Zoom links in Google calendar yet, though.

    Bort
    Employee
    Bort
    Employee
    April 19, 2022

    I am not aware of a way to enforce that for Google Calendar specifically, but you might check out the Account-level setting Auto-launch PWA when joining a meeting on Chrome OS. That should force Zoom links to open the PWA instead of the ChromeOS app. 

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