{"id":2382,"date":"2010-08-27T21:24:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T03:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2010-08-27T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T03:26:22","slug":"are-you-seeing-please-download-the-voice-plugin-to-make-a-call-error-in-googles-new-call-phone-link-heres-the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"Are you getting a plugin error in Google&#8217;s new CALL PHONE link? Here&#8217;s the fix!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having some problems using Google Chat in my Google account through the Firefox browser. Every single time I went to the CALL PHONE link, I got the error that I needed to &#8220;please download the voice plugin to make a call&#8221;, even though I had already installed the plugin multiple times!<\/p>\n<p>What was even more interesting was that the CALL PHONE feature worked in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\">Safari<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> was the only one having problems with it.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody on the &#8216;net seemed to have a solution, but after messing with the browsers for a few minutes, I think I got it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I got the CALL PHONE feature in Google working for me in Firefox&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to TOOLS and ADD-ONS<\/li>\n<li>Click on PLUG INS<\/li>\n<li>ENABLE both GOOGLE TALK NPAPI PLUGIN and GOOGLE TALK PLUGIN VIDEO ACCELERATOR<\/li>\n<li>QUIT Firefox and relaunch it<\/li>\n<li>CALL PHONE will work!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;re going to see before the fix&#8230;<BR><BR><\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"Google Talk Fix by Royce Eddington, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royceeddington\/4933272985\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4121\/4933272985_c467e2e9f2.jpg?resize=500%2C74\" alt=\"Google Talk Fix\" width=\"500\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/center><BR><BR><\/p>\n<p>Just click on the greyed out icon and press ENABLE. Restart Firefox and you&#8217;re set.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently either Firefox doesn&#8217;t enable the plugin on the initial install, or the install code from Google doesn&#8217;t hit the right switch along the way.<\/p>\n<p>I also assume a similar trick will work in Internet Explorer through MANAGE ADD ONS and making sure everything with a GOOGLE prefix is enabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having some problems using Google Chat in my Google account through the Firefox browser. 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