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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.



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.


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


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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