I got curious and started looking into this. Looks like you can enable background blur in google meet if you’re using the latest version of firefox, I just did myself to confirm.
All I need to do is by spoofing the user agent in about:config, by setting general.useragent.override to Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36.
Awesome, I’ll have a look again. Last time I tried changing the useragent (it was a while ago), the whole Google Meet website had some issues and it didn’t work. Maybe the specific useragent you use also has an impact.
I got curious and started looking into this. Looks like you can enable background blur in google meet if you’re using the latest version of firefox, I just did myself to confirm.
All I need to do is by spoofing the user agent in
about:config
, by settinggeneral.useragent.override
toMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
.If I remove the user agent spoofing, google meet refuses to show the background effect options.
So my conclusion is google deliberately gate this feature behind user agent sniffing. Firefox is perfectly capable of supporting this feature.
Some discussion about the issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703668
Awesome, I’ll have a look again. Last time I tried changing the useragent (it was a while ago), the whole Google Meet website had some issues and it didn’t work. Maybe the specific useragent you use also has an impact.