Why doesn't Google Meet recognize my mic/camera, but other video conferences work fine?

edit: I am a fool! Just needed to disable chameleon. thanks!

It was working fine a few weeks ago, then randomly stopped detecting mic/camera. Did Google get tired of me not using Chrome? Lol

I have an old HP envy 360 (internal camera and mic) Fedora 41 with KDE Plasma Firefox browser

Zoom (app), Updox (browser), and a few others still work fine. I set it to always allow camera & mic but no dice.

Old forum posts sadly did not fix it either :(

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Did you check to see if it has permissions
- As far as I can tell it does. I looked in Firefox settings. Is there anywhere else I should look?
  
  No that's really the only place. Does it work with other browsers? That will tell you if ff is the culprit
Is some other app already using them?
- Not during the meeting, no
Try pavucontrol GUI app. I needed it to get teama audio connected. Just had to go into the input tab and drag the sliders/ select the drop down etc. Somehow that wakes things up.
- Thanks, I'll look at it. for now disabling chameleon worked
Disable all your extensions and see if it works. I remember having a similar issue a while back due to a vpn extension being installed. Even when the vpn wasn’t in use, google meet didn’t work until I disabled the extension.
- Thanks, turns out I still had chameleon enabled (as chrome, ironically) and it didn't like that.
  
  Awww yeah!

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