Google Talk Plugin 5.4.2.18903 is a third party application that provides additional functionality to OS X system and enjoys a popularity among Mac users. However, instead of installing it by dragging its icon to the Application folder, uninstalling Google Talk Plugin 5.4.2.18903 may need you to do more than a simple drag-and-drop to the Trash.
Log into your Gmail, not Google Voice web page, and go to your main, inbox page. Look for your avatar on the left side of the page, midway down.
It's either a generic head-and-shoulders icon, or your own selected photo or image. Click it to reveal the drop-down menu. If it says 'Try the new Hangouts', click that to convert over to Hangouts. If it says 'Revert to old Chat', don't click it; just close the menu. Look at the very bottom left of the page, for a small 'talk balloon' with a quotation mark (') inside.
Click it several times to see that it toggles on and off - dark is on, and grey is off. To use Hangouts, it needs to be on (dark). Completely uninstall the old version of the plugin,. Download and successfully install the latest new version,.
In Gmail, convert from using Google Chat to using Google Hangouts, and. If you are using Firefox or Safari, tell your web browser to 'always activate' or 'enable' the plugin. If you are using MS Windows version 8.x, then you must run a web browser in classic 'Desktop' mode, not in the new Windows full-screen 'Start Page' (aka 'Metro') mode, because Start Page mode does not support the use of plugins.
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Log into your Gmail, not Google Voice web page, and go to your main, inbox page. Look for your avatar on the left side of the page, midway down. It's either a generic head-and-shoulders icon, or your own selected photo or image.
Click it to reveal the drop-down menu. If it says 'Try the new Hangouts', click that to convert over to Hangouts. If it says 'Revert to old Chat', don't click it; just close the menu. Look at the very bottom left of the page, for a small 'talk balloon' with a quotation mark (') inside. Click it several times to see that it toggles on and off - dark is on, and grey is off.
To use Hangouts, it needs to be on (dark).