Google Voice and Movie Talk on Windows eight – A Linguist s Take
Making Google Voice and Movie Plugin work on Windows eight Desktop
I recently shifted to Windows 8. Earlier I was using Windows seven Pro and so I did only an upgrade to Windows eight so that I did not have to install all my applications all over again.
The upgrade was fine except for one thing. After a few days of upgrade I found that I was incapable to make a movie or voice call using the Gmail feature. Whenever I attempted to make a call, I was asked to install the "Google Voice and Movie Talk plugin" and it will take me to this link: https://www.google.com/talk/movie/
I went to this link several times and installed the plugin for umpteen times but of no avail and it will still ask me the same. I read somewhere on the internet that on Windows eight it is not supported in the Metro Mode but google voice and movie runs fine on the desktop mode. Some said that it works fine with Google’s Chrome browser. I was never a fan of Google’s Chrome and my beloved was always Firefox. But for the Google voice feature, I installed this browser as well.
Again the result was the same. No support for Google voice or movie calling on my Windows machine on any of the three browsers.
I had read people telling that if they did a fresh install of Windows 8, it worked for them. But I was not ready to format my C drive and get a three day’s job to get this petty plugin working on my fresh OS.
After some workarounds, I thought of uninstalling everything that was related to Google. So, I uninstalled Google Talk, Google Talk Plugin and Google Chrome. I also liquidated the data files associated with these applications from my C drive under the users directory.
After all this, I installed the Google Voice and Movie Talk plugin again. And, LO, it worked flawlessly well in my dearest Firefox!
Then I checked whether it worked with my Internet Explorer as well. But it was not working there. I knew that the install was just fine. So, I went to check the "Add-on Manager" area of it and witnessed that for Google there were two add-ons. One was "Google Talk ActiveX Plugin" which was already enabled. But there was another one under the Google section itself named "O3DHostControl Class" which was disabled. So, I enabled this too. Closed the Internet Explorer and restarted it. When logged back into gmail in Internet Explorer, the Gmail talk and movie feature commencing working and I was getting the green little "Movie Camera" icon flashed behind my name!
As there is less amount of info about this on the internet, I thought sharing my practice would be helpful to others. Hope it will save some of your time when you shift to Windows 8!
Google Voice and Movie Talk on Windows eight – A Linguist s Take
Making Google Voice and Movie Plugin work on Windows eight Desktop
I recently shifted to Windows 8. Earlier I was using Windows seven Pro and so I did only an upgrade to Windows eight so that I did not have to install all my applications all over again.
The upgrade was fine except for one thing. After a few days of upgrade I found that I was incapable to make a movie or voice call using the Gmail feature. Whenever I attempted to make a call, I was asked to install the "Google Voice and Movie Talk plugin" and it will take me to this link: https://www.google.com/talk/movie/
I went to this link several times and installed the plugin for umpteen times but of no avail and it will still ask me the same. I read somewhere on the internet that on Windows eight it is not supported in the Metro Mode but google voice and movie runs fine on the desktop mode. Some said that it works fine with Google’s Chrome browser. I was never a fan of Google’s Chrome and my beloved was always Firefox. But for the Google voice feature, I installed this browser as well.
Again the result was the same. No support for Google voice or movie calling on my Windows machine on any of the three browsers.
I had read people telling that if they did a fresh install of Windows 8, it worked for them. But I was not ready to format my C drive and get a three day’s job to get this petty plugin working on my fresh OS.
After some workarounds, I thought of uninstalling everything that was related to Google. So, I uninstalled Google Talk, Google Talk Plugin and Google Chrome. I also liquidated the data files associated with these applications from my C drive under the users directory.
After all this, I installed the Google Voice and Movie Talk plugin again. And, LO, it worked ideally well in my beloved Firefox!
Then I checked whether it worked with my Internet Explorer as well. But it was not working there. I knew that the install was just fine. So, I went to check the "Add-on Manager" area of it and spotted that for Google there were two add-ons. One was "Google Talk ActiveX Plugin" which was already enabled. But there was another one under the Google section itself named "O3DHostControl Class" which was disabled. So, I enabled this too. Closed the Internet Explorer and restarted it. When logged back into gmail in Internet Explorer, the Gmail talk and movie feature commencing working and I was getting the green little "Movie Camera" icon flashed behind my name!
As there is less amount of info about this on the internet, I thought sharing my practice would be helpful to others. Hope it will save some of your time when you shift to Windows 8!