why Google hangouts support sharing desktop without Chrome Extension in lastet Chrome?












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As far as I know, in browser, such as Chrome



Sharing desktop or application need Chrome Extension to work, eg:



chrome.permissions.request({
permissions: ['desktopCapture'],
}


But !! why Google hangouts do not need any extension to capture desktop ?



Is there api of javascript for this ?



I searched on Google, Mozilla MDN, blogs..., but found nothing on this, need your help, thks!!










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  • Google whitelists API access for its own stuff. It's convenient to be a browser developer.

    – wOxxOm
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:10






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    webRTC stuff in latest versions of chrome is avoid a install extension for screensharing too, but earlier it was nessusary. Hangouts are use webRTC. May be it related.

    – Andrey Suglobov
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:54
















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As far as I know, in browser, such as Chrome



Sharing desktop or application need Chrome Extension to work, eg:



chrome.permissions.request({
permissions: ['desktopCapture'],
}


But !! why Google hangouts do not need any extension to capture desktop ?



Is there api of javascript for this ?



I searched on Google, Mozilla MDN, blogs..., but found nothing on this, need your help, thks!!










share|improve this question























  • Google whitelists API access for its own stuff. It's convenient to be a browser developer.

    – wOxxOm
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:10






  • 1





    webRTC stuff in latest versions of chrome is avoid a install extension for screensharing too, but earlier it was nessusary. Hangouts are use webRTC. May be it related.

    – Andrey Suglobov
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:54














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As far as I know, in browser, such as Chrome



Sharing desktop or application need Chrome Extension to work, eg:



chrome.permissions.request({
permissions: ['desktopCapture'],
}


But !! why Google hangouts do not need any extension to capture desktop ?



Is there api of javascript for this ?



I searched on Google, Mozilla MDN, blogs..., but found nothing on this, need your help, thks!!










share|improve this question














As far as I know, in browser, such as Chrome



Sharing desktop or application need Chrome Extension to work, eg:



chrome.permissions.request({
permissions: ['desktopCapture'],
}


But !! why Google hangouts do not need any extension to capture desktop ?



Is there api of javascript for this ?



I searched on Google, Mozilla MDN, blogs..., but found nothing on this, need your help, thks!!







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  • Google whitelists API access for its own stuff. It's convenient to be a browser developer.

    – wOxxOm
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:10






  • 1





    webRTC stuff in latest versions of chrome is avoid a install extension for screensharing too, but earlier it was nessusary. Hangouts are use webRTC. May be it related.

    – Andrey Suglobov
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:54



















  • Google whitelists API access for its own stuff. It's convenient to be a browser developer.

    – wOxxOm
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:10






  • 1





    webRTC stuff in latest versions of chrome is avoid a install extension for screensharing too, but earlier it was nessusary. Hangouts are use webRTC. May be it related.

    – Andrey Suglobov
    Nov 21 '18 at 11:54

















Google whitelists API access for its own stuff. It's convenient to be a browser developer.

– wOxxOm
Nov 21 '18 at 11:10





Google whitelists API access for its own stuff. It's convenient to be a browser developer.

– wOxxOm
Nov 21 '18 at 11:10




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1





webRTC stuff in latest versions of chrome is avoid a install extension for screensharing too, but earlier it was nessusary. Hangouts are use webRTC. May be it related.

– Andrey Suglobov
Nov 21 '18 at 11:54





webRTC stuff in latest versions of chrome is avoid a install extension for screensharing too, but earlier it was nessusary. Hangouts are use webRTC. May be it related.

– Andrey Suglobov
Nov 21 '18 at 11:54












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As of now, Google Hangouts does use an extension, it's just integrated into Chrome to the point of not being visible.



Source: Chromium issue to remove this special treatment



You can test that it is (stealthily) installed by manually opening



chrome-extension://nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome/background.html


At the same time, work is ongoing to support WebRTC spec for screen sharing (getDisplayMedia) in Chrome. It's not yet enabled by default in released Chrome versions, but will be very soon (code is already in the codebase).



Implementation tracking: Chromium issue






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As of now, Google Hangouts does use an extension, it's just integrated into Chrome to the point of not being visible.



Source: Chromium issue to remove this special treatment



You can test that it is (stealthily) installed by manually opening



chrome-extension://nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome/background.html


At the same time, work is ongoing to support WebRTC spec for screen sharing (getDisplayMedia) in Chrome. It's not yet enabled by default in released Chrome versions, but will be very soon (code is already in the codebase).



Implementation tracking: Chromium issue






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As of now, Google Hangouts does use an extension, it's just integrated into Chrome to the point of not being visible.



Source: Chromium issue to remove this special treatment



You can test that it is (stealthily) installed by manually opening



chrome-extension://nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome/background.html


At the same time, work is ongoing to support WebRTC spec for screen sharing (getDisplayMedia) in Chrome. It's not yet enabled by default in released Chrome versions, but will be very soon (code is already in the codebase).



Implementation tracking: Chromium issue






share|improve this answer
























  • getDisplayMedia is under flag in Chrome 70 addpipe.com/blog/…

    – Octavian Naicu
    Nov 23 '18 at 17:06














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As of now, Google Hangouts does use an extension, it's just integrated into Chrome to the point of not being visible.



Source: Chromium issue to remove this special treatment



You can test that it is (stealthily) installed by manually opening



chrome-extension://nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome/background.html


At the same time, work is ongoing to support WebRTC spec for screen sharing (getDisplayMedia) in Chrome. It's not yet enabled by default in released Chrome versions, but will be very soon (code is already in the codebase).



Implementation tracking: Chromium issue






share|improve this answer













As of now, Google Hangouts does use an extension, it's just integrated into Chrome to the point of not being visible.



Source: Chromium issue to remove this special treatment



You can test that it is (stealthily) installed by manually opening



chrome-extension://nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome/background.html


At the same time, work is ongoing to support WebRTC spec for screen sharing (getDisplayMedia) in Chrome. It's not yet enabled by default in released Chrome versions, but will be very soon (code is already in the codebase).



Implementation tracking: Chromium issue







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  • getDisplayMedia is under flag in Chrome 70 addpipe.com/blog/…

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getDisplayMedia is under flag in Chrome 70 addpipe.com/blog/…

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getDisplayMedia is under flag in Chrome 70 addpipe.com/blog/…

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