Google Hangouts Video Call – How to Keep It Always on Top

I have encountered this issue as the person unable to hear the other party. I found that my issue was that my ad blocker plugin (uBlock Origin) was somehow interfering. When I disabled the ad blocker for Hangouts, I was able to hear the other party and the video display became a lot less jerky.

I recommend trying Hangouts in Incognito mode (and disable your ad blocker extension as well if you allow it in Incognito).

If your other party can't hear you, recommend to them that they try these steps as the issue is likely on their end.

The best thing you can do is access it from the Apps page by using the apps shortcut in your Chrome Bookmarks Bar to open the application.

To enable access to your apps page from the bookmarks bar, just right click on the the toolbar and make sure Show apps shortcut (red circle) has a check mark by it. Once this is done you'll see the Apps shortcut (green circle).

To add the Hangouts Application to your dock, go to the Apps page. Then right click on the Hangouts application and select Create shortcuts... This is where my screenshots won't come in handy because I'm on a Windows machine at the moment. Once you click the 'Create shortcuts...' a box will pop up saying something like Add to applications folder. Once you do that it will open up the Applications folder and you can then drag the Hangouts icon into your dock bar. This will give you easy access to be able to open the application without having to use your previous launch methods.

PS I added the dock method because there might be away to sign into two profiles at once and easily switch. I'm not exactly sure though, because I've never tried.