You can connect to Zoom from Firefox, Safari, Edge, or even Internet Explorer, but Chrome has the most functionality.

If it’s grayed out, someone disabled it at the account or group level and you’ll need to change that at the account level or get your administrator to change it.

Navigate to Show a ‘join from your browser’ link, which shows under Meeting > Meeting (Advanced).

If you’re an admin, click on My Meetings Settings.

That’s not all though, you’ll also need to change some settings for your own Zoom meetings:

You can also go into Group Management and click on the names of specific groups of users, then Settings and repeating the prior sequence.

Click on that so it goes blue, making the setting mandatory for all users, then click Lock to confirm Look at the right side of the toggle for a very faint gray padlock.

Then to In Meeting (Advanced), and toggle Show a ‘join from your browser’ link to on.Here’s how to be a responsible Zoom meeting host in these trying times: That’s only one part of the equation though, as meeting hosts can make things simpler for invitees. Once you know that the link comes after you click to join the meeting, you can be on the lookout to click so you don’t have to install the app. It’s not like they can ask IT to manually install it for them either.

Many home workers will have locked-down corporate laptops to work from home and won’t be able to install the app. Not only is this a terrible user interface – seemingly to drive up app downloads – it’s also unworkable in the current situation.

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