Chrome - Microphone blocked even if it shows allowed - google-chrome

I am trying to implement and use the Chrome Speech API on my website but I'm not able to do it. The response I receive is that the "Permission to use microphone is blocked" but it really isn't. Microphone settings in Chrome are clearly showing that I don't have sites blocked and that the system should it least ask.
It is not a problem with the website because I have performed tests on other computers and it is working fine. I would like to figure out the settings/preferences that need to be readjusted in order to make this work.
In addition to this, in C:\Users\MY-USER\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Preferences I was able to see entries for my site and I removed them but nothing changed. I tried also (not in order:
1- Reset Chrome.
2- Uninstalling/reinstalling Chrome. Manually removing files and registry entries.
3- Run Chrome in incognito mode.
4- Run ChromeCleanup Tool
5- Not working on Chrome Canary.
6- Every computer was tested on the same internet connection.
I am not sure what else I can do about this.
Thanks!

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Google Chrome Microphone problems. No joy whatever the settings

I've been getting annoyed from this. It was used to work fine, but it must have happened with some recent update.
I'm on Google Chrome 71 and the microphone doesn't work. Regardless the extension (including Google Meet) and the settings which clearly shows the microphone as active, the audio is not passing sounds in.
The audio settings at computer level are fine, the chrome settings are fine and the microphone is enabled and whitelisted for the given site.
I tried also to fully reset the browser, restoring to the original settings and to use unlinking my accounts. No joy.
Conversely, while using Chromoium (Google Canary) everything works fine.
Has anybody experiencing the same or found a solution?
Ok, in a nutshell - and after having reported this to their chrome bug center - it turned out to be an issue I (and very likely many other users) have been experiencing with the upgrade to MoJave.
Basically, the upgrade seems to remove the microphone access at OS level.
To fix/check this, go into System Preference > Security and Privacy > Microphone and re-instate the check to Google Chrome, which should in theory unticked as it was on my case.

Facing issue while trying to run Robot framework script in google chrome browser

I am facing a Chrome popup while trying to run Robot Frame work script:
Microsoft Security Essentials wants to restore your Chrome settings to their
original defaults.
This will reset your homepage, new tab page and
search engine, disable your extensions, and unpin all tabs. It will
also clear other temporary and cached data, such as cookies, content
and site data.
In chrome extension, my developer mode is unchecked, whereas it should be checked.
The Robot Framework automation script is just to open the google Chrome browser and load google search page.
I am using Win 7 Home Basic OS.
I have attached screenshots.
It appears that most Chrome support specialists will ask you to run an anti-malware tool to verify that your system is running normally. These can be found by searching on the popup message.
One Reddit user commented that in his case the problem was resolved by altering the Windows registry:
I finally found a fix for this. There is a setting in the registry
that's causing it.
In the registry it's under
HKEY_CKU\CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\TriggeredReset
Delete the TriggeredReset key and then close regedit. Fixed.
This is an API for 3rd party programmers who want to create cleaning
tools. But if the tool isn't written properly, the triggered reset
never gets deleted and we have it always asking.

How do I fix the "we can't reach this page" error or "err_connection_timed_out" on my browsers?

I am currently experiencing an error everytime I use my Microsoft Edge. Whenever I try to go to a site, I always end up with this error. The weird thing is, this issue only happens on certain websites (such as Facebook and Yahoo currently) and sometimes with Google. It likes to disconnect me often and I really don't want to have to deal with this issue anymore.
My internet works fine as my laptop (which I'm currently on) and phone can connect to it without issue. I don't know why it doesn't work on my desktop especially since its internet is Ethernet.
I tested this on other browsers to see if it was only on Edge but it turns out that chrome and firefox experience the same issue with different sites as well. For all three, I haven't been able to go on Facebook and Yahoo, and sometimes Google.
I know the problem is from my end because clearly, the sites are up. Is there any way to solve this or has anyone else found a solution to this?
I'm running Windows 10.
I've tried the following:
ipconfig / flush
ipconfig / reset
ipconfig / release
ipconfig / renew
clearing caches and browsing history
a full scan for malware using malwarebytes and windows defender, already removed/quarantined all threats, did this multiple times to ensure there were none left
reinstallation of chrome and firefox and a reset of edge
ipv4 - changing preferred and alternate dns address to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 respectively
checked to see if a proxy was up, no proxy
If I were to do a factory reset, would this solve the issue?
To narrow it down a bit, can you confirm that you only get this when navigating to the sites listed and they're using SSL / HTTPS? Some will auto re-direct to HTTPS if you go to their non-SSL equivalent, but it's worth trying this on sites like Google which do support both.
If this does help narrow down the behaviour, then I've seen this behaviour once before, but this was behind a corporate proxy which didn't support SSL SPDY.
You can try disabling SPDY support, but there is likely to be an underlying issue (perhaps anti-virus acting as a proxy?).
To test disabling SPDY:
Internet Explorer 11
In the browser, select Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > HTTP
Settings and clear the Use SPDY/3 option.
Firefox
In the browser, enter about:config in the address bar and press
Enter. Confirm the security warning. Type
network.http.spdy.enabled in the Search field. For all the entries, set the Value to false.
Chrome
Use a switch to disable SPDY for Chrome. Edit the shortcut for Chrome
and add the following switch at the end of the Target path:
--use-spdy=off
For example, if Chrome's default shortcut link is pointing to
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", change it to
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" –use-spdy=off.
Source:-
http://bluecoat.force.com/knowledgebase/articles/Solution/HowtodisableSPDYprotocolsupportinbrowsers
I had a caller who was getting the "can't load page" error in Chrome only when logging into the AMEX site. Every other browser worked. The fix was to disable some weird experimental Chrome setting that is on by default. Go to chrome://flags, search for "experimental quic protocol" and "Disable" it.
Source
Click on start/control pane/IE options/Privacy Tab/Sites
Look at list of sites to see if any Google sites are blocked.

Chrome v45 and ShellinABox

We have a web application that runs within a VPN. It has a self signed cert on it and is accessed through the server's IP address.
Part of the functionality of this app are some legacy Java apps (that no longer run in Chrome). Our initial work around for our Chrome users was to run Shell In A Box within an iframe of the web app to run those. All was good until the latest version of Chrome, v45.
What we’re seeing is that appears to be blocking the iframed content (maybe because of the self-signed cert?). If we grab the ShellinABox URL and drop it in a new tab, it works as it used to in the iframe. If we go back to the iframe, it now works. If we close Chrome and open it back up, it still works.
I should also note that we tried the canary builds as well. It's up to v47.x and we still see the same behavior there. We were reading through some of the Chrome group/bug lists and saw some reports that were similar but the "fixes" supposedly going through canary still didn't resolve it.
So, it appears that an exception is being logged somewhere. Does anyone have an explanation for this behavior and is there a way to set this exception without jumping through those hoops?
It turned out it was due to a permissions issue with ShellInABox that didn't reveal itself until v45 of Chrome, for some odd reason.

Google Chrome Client Certificate Popup

I'm implementing a mutual authentication for my client in order to solve not having to continually whitelist some of the agencies with a dynamic ip. The process works fine in all browsers that I've tried in the Windows environment (Windows 7).
The problem is that there is a popup for every time that the user goes to the site. On most browsers, this is a one time occurrence, when you first go to the site for the day. On Google Chrome, however, the popup occurs on what appears to be every POST/GET request. I found how to disable the popup for IE and FF with this link: http://docs.threerings.org.uk/wiki/Certificates_without_prompting, but there is still the problem with Chrome.
I've tried to install the certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities, but I get an error message, "The import failed because the store was read-only, the store was full, or the store did not open correctly.".
If anyone has an idea on what I can do to get around the pop-up for Chrome, it would be greatly appreciated.
This is what you're looking for:
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#AutoSelectCertificateForUrls
I could tell you how to do it exactly, but my honest opinion is that this is something you have to work out yourself. You need to know what is going on because you are more than likely to run into bugs (not bugs per-se but some undesired or unwanted results).
I have to admit that Google Chrome and Chromium are great browsers, but when it comes to client certificates, they have a lot of improvements to be made.
Just some extra info on this that may help people.
The first part references the CFBundleIdentifier which you can find in the Contents folder then info.plist. Click you Application and then show package contents then you should see it.
So I had to do this for Chromium for Tizen debugging below worked obviously use your CN name.
defaults write org.chromium.Chromium AutoSelectCertificateForUrls -array-add -string '{"pattern":"*","filter":{"ISSUER":{"CN":"Entrust Certification Authority"}}}'