Zoom meetings on a Mac via Safari?

DaveWT

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I have been attending Zoom meetings on my iPhone 11 with the Zoom app. But I wanted to try a Zoom meeting on my iMac with Catalina and Safari. I click on the offered link in an email and it launches Safari with a Zoom web page and a box to "Launch Meeting". Clicking on that box does absolutely nothing. As an alternate I copied the meeting link and pasted it into Firefox and the same "Launch Meeting" box does absolutely nothing. Is anyone who is using a Mac to attend Zoom meetings doing it from a browser? (I am not interested in installing the Zoom app on my Mac, in case that is suggested.)

Dave
 

DaveWT

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Yes, I stumbled across this site while searching for an answer. While this suggests it is possible, I also found a Zoom support site that says it isn't with Safari. Firefox seems to be slightly more likely but I haven't found the exact path (if it exists) to make that work either.
Dave
 

chas_m

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The only browser I use is Safari, but I think the step you are missing here is that you haven't installed the Zoom **app** for Mac yet. Once that is present, when you click on a Zoom link in an email Safari will still open and take you to the Zoom website, but then a pop-up box will ask if you want to open the link in the Zoom app. Click yes/okay/whatever it is to do so.
 

DaveWT

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OK, I understand what you are saying but I was asking if it was possible to use Zoom in the browser without installing the app, like my daughter does regularly on her Windows PC. On a Mac, it sounds like the app is a requirement, and if you have that,, why bother trying to use a browser to attend a Zoom meeting?
 

chas_m

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I believe you can use Zoom in a browser (no app) on the Mac, but apparently this relies on a Chrome extension or bit of technology that only the Google Chrome web browser has, so that's probably the key.
 

DaveWT

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Yes, I guess that is the end of the story. Either I ditch Safari (which I won't) or download the app (which I have been reluctant to do, but maybe it is time to just do it!)
 

chas_m

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Just a note: you can have multiple browsers on your Mac. You don't have to "ditch" Safari for anything other than Zoom meetings. I presently have Safari as my default, but also have Edge, Firefox, and Brave on my machine for testing and troubleshooting.
 

DaveWT

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Yes, I meant "ditch Safari" in the case of working with Zoom. I also have Firefox installed, of course, but I use it so infrequently that every time I do find a reason to launch it, I find I have to do an update to it first, as those seem so frequent. (Not complaining about that of course - a good thing for security, but a minor delay in its use when I do need it.)
 

chas_m

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Yes, FF has a completely ludicrous update schedule. The current version is 82.0.2 (EIGHTY TWO, you read that right). For comparison, Safari is on version 14.
 
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