1747129 - [Google Meet] All Participants have admin control during meetings

Status: NEW

(Core :: WebRTC, defect)

Description

[Mark Richards [:freshness]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:95.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/95.0

STR:
As a participant

1. Go to New Meeting (Google Meet)
2. Wait for the meeting to open in a new tab
3. Give access permissions
4. Open the Participants menu in the lower right (silhouette icon)
5. Mute or remove other participants in the meeting

Expected Behavior:
Only Hosts/Admins have the ability to control other participants devices or kick participants

Actual Behavior:
All participants can kick or mute other participants (except for the Host).

Captured in the loom recording below, the Host has a new "host controls" section, but the option to enable or disable the ability for participants to kick other users isn't listed as an adjustable parameter.

Link to Loom recording from Admin perspective

Comment 1

[Michael Froman [:mjf]]

This seems like a site issue more so than an actual WebRTC issue. Mark, how does the behavior in Firefox differ from Chrome?

Also, has this behavior changed recently? If so, a mozregression would be super helpful.

Comment 2

[Mark Richards [:freshness]]

That's correct, this is a UX issue with Meet (behavior is exactly the same in Chrome) but this is related to the meta bug 1739571. When it was opened, the components were cloned from the meta bug. No action is needed from FF at this time, but visibility to the Meet team is necessary.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:mjf, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[Michael Froman [:mjf]]

Since this isn't anything we have control over, I'm marking this S4.

I'm not really sure that we should be tracking this since it is not a Firefox issue. Jim, any thoughts?

Comment 5

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Yeah sounds like a Meet bug. We should post to the discussion list about it. I'll try to reproduce first.

Comment 6

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

I was able to reproduce this with two windows devices. Both participants were 'hosts' and had full control.