He shut down some suspicious processes that might have been causing it and says he didn’t have any malware installed, but still to no avail. He investigated in the Windows Task Manager to look for any process that might be to blame – no dice. Ofer Zelig wrote on his blog today about an odd case where the LED light on his computer, that turns on whenever the microphone or camera is activated, seemed to blink every few seconds or so while he was working on his PC. It all started with a blinking LED light. As it is not open source, it does not belong in the open source browser. In light of this issue, we have decided to remove the hotwording component entirely from Chromium. The module that manages whether the hotword listening extension is enabled will be “disabled by default” and the proprietary technology that actually listens for “Ok Google” will not download. A member of the team says simply: After initially standing firm on its implementation of the hotwording module and proprietary Google extension being automatically downloaded in new installations of the Chromium open source browser, a wave of criticism has led to the team pulling it out of Chromium 45 and onwards.
Update: What’s that? Oh, just the smell of change.
