Google Voice (by Google)

Kurt Brazzil

2021-12-17

It used to give me a dropdown showing new voicemails, and a counter that would show if I had a new message but it has been completely neutered. Now it is just a glorified link to the google voice page essentially. Only other feature I can see is the ability to click phone numbers on a website and dial them through voice.

It's Me

2021-12-17

Am I the only one who still uses this thing? Looks like it was updated yesterday and now it does nothing more than give me info about GoogleVoice? I can get that from the website. it was bad enough you stopped the group text now it can't even open the webpage. I might as well make a bookmark and drop the extension.

Also, all things considered it worked okay before yesterday. And I would have given 5 stars... probably more like 4 but definitely not 2 and I am seriously thinking of dropping it to 1.

Josh Jetrod

2021-12-16

I'm hoping that this latest update is a mistake, and that they are working on a fix as I type this.

Eric S

2021-12-16

Wow! You did it! You took an already useless extension and made it even more useless. At least before I could use the extension to take me to the Google Voice site. Who is working on this project?

Mr. Lance E Sloan

2021-12-15

My caution to users is to NOT turn on the "Voice icons" feature of this extension.

The GV extension tries to find phone numbers on the pages shown in the browser and add clickable GV icons following each of them. The extension options panel says that it looks for "E.164-format phone numbers". However, in practical use it could be any string of numbers. For example, I received an email in GMail from a colleague to meeting at "2021-12-07 10:00 - 11:00". The GV extension interpreted that as a phone number, putting its icon immediately after "2021-12-07 10". It's annoying to see that there, taking up space, but also the icon is a different height than the text, so it put all of the formatting off.