Last month I got a new laptop at work. When I recently wanted to airdrop myself a link from Chrome on that machine, I was confused to find the Share menu being disabled.

After a brief Kagi search I discovered the reason: Chrome had to be added into the Screen & System Audio Recording list in the Privacy & Security system settings. Of course!

Oddly this doesn’t seem to be the case with Chromium – the screenshot is from my personal laptop. I only use it as a fallback for bad websites and didn’t give it any permissions, yet the Share menu works fine. In general, it appears to affect all derivates, though – look at all these happy people being protected by this easily discoverable quirk.