But if you’re being asked to join a bunch of Zoom meetings, it’s clearly a lot more convenient to have a browser plug-in take the strain for you vs saddling yourself with copying and pasting meeting IDs.

At the time of writing, submissions are listed as pending for Opera and Edge.Īs others have noted, it does remain possible to perform a redirect manually, by adding your meeting ID to a Zoom web client link - /wc/join/. So far the extension is available for Chrome and Firefox. It kills me that Zoom intentionally hides the 'join from your browser' link, so here's a small (20 line) browser extension that transparently redirects Zoom links to use their web client: “This browser extension solves this problem by transparently redirecting any meeting links to use Zoom’s browser based web client.” “When joining a Zoom meeting, the ‘join from your browser’ link is intentionally hidden,” he warns.

So he put together this nice little Zoom Redirector browser extension that “transparently redirects any meeting links to use Zoom’s browser based web client,” as he puts it on Github. Software engineer, Arkadiy Tetelman - currently the head of appsec/infrasec for US mobile bank Chime - was one of those who got annoyed by Zoom hiding the join via browser option. Some have even called it irresponsible, during the coronavirus pandemic, given how many people are suddenly forced to work from home where they may be using locked down corporate laptops that don’t allow them to download apps. Want to join a Zoom meeting in the browser without having to download its app to do so? Check out this browser plug-in that shortcuts the needless friction the videoconferencing company has baked into the process of availing yourself of its web client.Īs we noted last week, Zoom does have a zero download option - it just hides it really well, preferring to push people to download its app.

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