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I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and for some reason the mic stopped working in whatsapp web or any other implementation of that website. now I get this message

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what's odd to me is that in the settings, it does appear like the mic exists for the os (the picture below shows how it looks if I have my earpiece connected to jack, the earpiece does have a mic that appears to work given the feedback seen on the picture

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If I remove the earpiece connected to jack.. It shows this

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which again gives me the indication that the os is seeing the mic so I'm not sure why is it that it does not show up for whatsapp web, whether I'm using the earpiece or nothing at all.

I have to say this was not the case before, but I can't tell what changed to cause this issue.

Also, the whatsapp web is on chrome, permissions to the mic were manually given yet, it still won't work

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I tried google meet and again the microfono is not getting detected by chrome

Last but not least, if use firefox, I get prompted to give the site mic permission and after that it works ok. I could possible switch to firefox but I'd really like to get this working again with chrome along with any other app that uses whatsapp web like whatsapp for linux or ferdium which I was using until recently.

any help troubleshooting this is greatly appreciate it as it's driving me nuts

Francisco Cortes
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Given that I have no clue or way to check what might have changed in chrome and since the issue is associated with Chrome specifically as mic works ok on firefox, I realized that one obvious option was to remove / purge chrome completely and proceed to reinstall.

Once I reinstalled it, chrome was able to detect my mic ok again.

Hope it helps someone.

Francisco Cortes
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