Use Chrome browser to go to https://web.whatsapp.com and follow the instructions to connect your phone. Go to Chrome settings ⇒ More tools ⇒ Create shortcut. Check"Open as window" and press"Create". This will create a desktop launcher to Whatsapp web that opens in its own window. Allow desktop notifications (if needed).
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On my Android phone Start WhatsApp Click the 3 dots -> select WhatsApp Web The bar code scanner popup. Point the scanner over WhatsApp bar code After a while the WhatsApp screen of my Android phone popup on computer. Then I can send and receive WhatsApp messages on my computer.
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In the WhatsApp Web tab: right-click and select “Inspect”. click the vertical dots button on the top right. click “More tools” → “Network conditions”. on the bottom at “User Agent”, uncheck “Select automatically”. from the dropdown list directly below choose “Chrome — Windows”.
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There is still no way to install a native Linux application for whatsapp, so I always use whatsapp's webapp with my daily browser (chromium based brave-browser). Everything works [mostly] fine, except when I need to click on a whatsapp link in a web site, that is supposed to open a conversation with a certain new cell phone number.
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To do this in Ubuntu 16.04 (and if I remember correctly is exactly the same in Ubuntu 14.04), just go to"System Settings" ->"Network" ->"Proxy", and delete (left in blank) the socks server line and left port in 0. You don't need to apply this -system wide-, just in the user you want to authenticate in Whatsapp Web.
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Double click on the DEB file to open and install with the Ubuntu Software Center, or from the command line with: sudo dpkg -i whatsapp-webapp_1.0_all.deb. Select WhatsApp from your Dash or Applications menu to start. Now Scan the QR code with your phone using the WhatsApp application. reference here. Share.
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If you want to stick to"Chromium on Ubuntu" as User Agent: Right Click (or two finger tap) on the extension in top bar and click on Options. A list will open which would look like. Click on New User-agent name. Give any name you like and as User-agent enter this Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu ...
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@matanster To be honest, I actually think 10 times before using anything outside official repositories, that's why I said"you can install an unofficial WhatsApp client at your own risk". My country has blocked most of the messengers and WhatsApp is the best thing we have so I use it quite often and it bothers me that I have to open it up in the browser every time but still, I never used any ...
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So basically it is not WhatsApp for PC but WhatsApp for Web. There are limitations to using WhatsApp via Web, some of which are: File Size Limits (Can not Upload 16+ MB Files) File Format (Not all file formats are supported. This affects different type of video, images, sound and even document type files) For the steps simply: Install WhatsApp ...
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Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + alt + t and just type the following command: sudo snap install whatsapp-for-linux. and then press y when an option is prompted. It will be installed automatically. Share. Improve this answer. answered Feb 5, 2023 at 12:12. Muhammad Kamran.
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