Google Meet

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Google meet remains unusable for a long time, sound is horrible during meetings”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “only site that was slow on firefox was google meet, but then it turned out someone documented how google had code to explicitly do that”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-10

• “my browser would open the right Google Meet or Zoom and come to the front. So useful.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-20

• “Google Meet didn't work very well in Firefox, so last year I took all my meetings in Chrome”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-07

• “Google Meet is terrible at it. Meet mishears our company name about 90% of the time; various attendee names are a coin toss.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-01

• “Google Meet consumes 25% of each of 16 hypercores, ffs. On a 7840u. Laptop becomes a toaster.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-15

• “Google Meet doesn't let me hook at any RTCPeerConnection APIs at all”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-07

• “Google Meet and Zoom screen sharing has always worked well in Wayland”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-20

• “Google Meet or WhatsApp are more than sufficient. They can support up to 20 participants with ease, based on my experience.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-22

• “I use my Bluetooth headset on discord, slack, and google meet without any problems on Pop and Bazzite”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-01-07

• “video backgrounds in Google Meet on Chrome are broken with nVidia GPUs and Wayland”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-01-01

• “i've used the meeting summary tool in google meet before and it was hilariously bad”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-16

• “The google meet PIP window strobes because who the hell knows why”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-11-14

• “google meet is notably worse with firefox, or some feature is only enabled on chrome”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-10-20

• “I much prefer working with slack and google meet like I did at my last job.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2025-09-09

• “I can't use Google Meet on firefox/zen, I tried every setting combination I could find but the video call quality is still not comparable to chromium based browsers”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-08-19

• “Google meet blocks all sorts of browsers / private tabs with a vague: "you cannot join this meeting" error”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-13

• “using Google Meet regularly for work from Firefox without problems”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-13

• “Google Meet consumes 40%-100% of my CPU on Firefox, and my laptop becomes a space heater”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-07-13

• “missing things like those image blur filters in Google Meet, which always felt like a completely artificial, anti-competitive limitation”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-07-12

• “surprisingly hard to get transcripts and recordings out of Zoom, Teams and Google Meet meetings”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-06-09

• “every comms product from Google (say Google Meet) works poorly on a slow internet connection”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-05-16

• “none of my phone cameras worked with Google Meet because Google engineering sucks”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-05-01

• “Why is there no "play me back but delayed" test meeting option? Apparently Zoom has this but I'm using Google Meet at the moment... Their answer is "ask someone else". No really.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-03-27

• “improving Google Meet with features like better chat UI, reactions, persisted messages, and transcriptions”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-03-26