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How To: Enable Camera in various browsers for item image capture

Owned by Aparajita Basu Roy
Last updated: Jun 25, 2019
3 min read

Once the self certification for Ginesys application has been enabled, the camera has to be enabled for browsers which the user will utilize for item image capture. The following steps will show how to enable a webcam or USB camera in two most popular browsers - Chrome and Firefox (Mozilla).

Prerequisites for Image Capture

Two important steps need to be executed for image capture through web browser to be possible:

  1. Convert Ginesys application URL to HTTPS
  2. Enable camera in various web browsers


 Steps to enable camera in Chrome
  1. Open Chrome . 
  2. At the top right, click More  and then Settings.

  3. At the bottom, click Advanced.



  4. Under Privacy and Security, click Content Settings.



  5. Click Camera.



  6. Turn Ask before accessing (recommended) feature On or Off.



  7. Now, return to the Ginesys application page and click on the Security Status Display of the site to open the Site Settings drop-down.



  8. In the drop-down beside the Camera, select Allow.



  9. Now Reload the page to apply the setting.


 Steps to enable camera in Firefox (Mozilla)
  1. Open link request as https and click on More Information tab.



  2. In Site Security tab, click on More Information to open Page Info.

  3. In Page Info, select the Use the Camera option remove the check in the Use Default checkbox and then select the Allow radio-button. Close the window.



  4. Now Reload the page to apply the setting.