Selecting a window/tab when sharing a screen

CenkTekin

When there is a need for screen sharing during a web meeting on Orion Browser, we can only share full screen. Wouldn't it be nice to have the possibility to select the screen or tab instead like in chrome or firefox?

Vlad

CenkTekin Steps to reproduce?

CenkTekin

Vlad First of all, thank you very much for your close attention. When I want to screen share during a meeting in Safari, it asks which screen or the whole screen to share. When I want to screen share on Firefox, it asks which screens in a window or tabs in the browser I want to share. In Orion Browser, when I choose screen sharing, it directly shares the full screen. Instead, it may ask me which of the screens or actively open windows or tabs on Orion Browser I want to share. I hope that has been revealing.

In Safari it's asking like this; (Sorry it is Turkish) 3 toptions share the window (as you select), share the whole screen, not share

In Waterfox (forked from Firefox) there are same options..

Vlad

CenkTekin

When I want to screen share during a meeting in Safari,

What kind of meeting?

CenkTekin

Vlad for example https://meet.jit.si Try it with Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Orion.. It'll be a good feature for Orion..

Vlad

Ok I was able to reproduce Safari asking about this so it seems we are lacking coverage for a special kind of permission to share just the window.

CenkTekin

I think Firefox or Chrome based browsers screen sharing feature is better. You can share the screen (if you are working on 2 or more monitors), or a window or a tab in the browser. In safari you can just share the whole screen or window. (And sometimes its not working good)

Vlad

CenkTekin Can you show the dialgoue from firefox/chrome?

CenkTekin

This is Firefox based screen

And this Chromium based (I think this one is better because you can select the tab to share)

hal-shortie

Closely related or potentially duplicating https://orionfeedback.org/d/504-per-tab-screensharinggoogle-meet-and-other-applications.

As @CenkTekin mentioned, it seems to be something that Safari supports natively:

I don't know when they added this feature, but I test semi-regularly if the Safari screensharing support has been improved and I don't remember having this functionality previously.

Fortrikka

Chrome has this option, Safari does not have this.
Would it be possible to add this to Orion and support the necessary API's that Chromium browsers use that Safari does not have in order to have visual effects from Google Meet, as well as it's per-tab screensharing option? Only the web-canvas should be shared and not any of the surrounding tabs or sidebars.

VitalyMakarenko

The same thing! Very important for remote work!

VitalyMakarenko

But there is an interesting thing. When I use Google meet I can’t share tabs (the option works perfectly on Chrome) But I'm able to see this option (Per-tab sharing) when I switched Orion user agent to Chrome. So but it's doesn't work!

hal-shortie

Just managed to find this in the Safari release notes, looks like it was added in safari 16.1:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes/safari-16_1-release-notes#New-Features

Also looks like there were some issues with how it behaved that have in the meantime been resolved:

Also looks like this feature is now marked as planned? Not sure what that means, but if it means it's coming: Omg. Can't wait to finally have this feature!!