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Asked: 2026-06-15T23:29:56+00:00

I’m attempting to play around with navigator.getUserMedia in Chrome; however, it is not requesting

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I’m attempting to play around with navigator.getUserMedia in Chrome; however, it is not requesting permission when served locally (file:///whatever/index.html), but does on JSFiddle ( http://jsfiddle.net/EBsvq/ ) and other sites.

Does anyone know the reason for this? Do I need to somehow reset my permissions?

Here is what I am using locally:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
   <button id="btn">Start</button>

<script type="text/javascript">
   /*! jQuery v1.8.3 jquery.com | jquery.org/license */
   //JQuery goes here
</script>

<script type="text/javascript">
  navigator.getUserMedia = navigator.webkitGetUserMedia || navigator.getUserMedia;

  $(function(){
    $('#btn').click(function(){
      navigator.getUserMedia({audio: true}, 
      function(){
        alert('success');
      },
      function (err) {
        alert('fail: ' + JSON.stringify(err));
      }); }); });
      </script>
  </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Chrome blocks a lot of stuff on file:/// URIs without reporting a security error (eg. Geolocation). Your best option is to run from a local webserver, if you have Python installed try SimpleHTTPServer.

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