Firefox @lemmy.ml lionkoy5555 @lemmy.world 10mo ago

Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10829773

Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox

Teams also doesn't support multiple "work" accounts, so I had to boot up a laptop to accept the call. 🤷

Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world qaz @lemmy.world 10mo ago

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Exactly, this is how Microsoft operates. This time they gave an excuse they still allow plenty of other browsers (with the same engine). Google loves it, because it hurts Firefox and they can say they are not responsible for 3rd parties blocking sites.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is coordinated based on lessons learned with IE.
- As a bonus it gives companies that want to use or allow Firefox a reason to use Google Workspace because Google Meet works perfectly on Firefox.
  
  If they want to use Firefox, wouldn't they also want to use a FOSS meeting software?
  
  My org actually uses both, as well as Slack. We use:
  
  Teams - most meetings
  
  Meet - some meetings w/ outside orgs
  
  Slack - 1:1 and small group, impromptu meetings
  
  I use the Teams and Slack apps, and Meet in the web.
people using user agent switcher so they can use bullshit like teams probably introduces errors into the statistics so microsoft can claim most users use chromium anyway.
- They're required to use a garbage app, but they're also not willing to drop their favorite browser. No choice but to compromise.
- A good user agent switcher should support per-site settings.
  
  Right, but that doesn't change the fact that the site you use it on can gather statistics to show what the most popular browser is.
Does it work if you change your user agent?
- Yep it does, funnily enough
  
  So it's just an arbitrary restriction as a "fück you" to people using FF
- Could be using experimental APIs Chrome has, there are plenty of them.
  
  This is the issue with one giant browser. They can make the "spec" what ever they want without any consideration of other browsers.
Teams is shit in any form. Slowest app to launch on my M2 MacBook Pro, but it’s what we use where I work so I have no choice.
- Should be better with v2, normally. V1 uses electron and an old angular version which both were slow as fuck and used a shit ton of resources. I also think electron doesnt support the arm platform yet? (citation needed).
  
  Anyway, v2 uses react and a better webapp engine to run as an app so it should be faster. Not surprised if it still ran as shit though haha
  
  Still slow, at least on my Intel Mac.
  
  And electron does support ARM, or at least it runs on M1 Macbooks. We use Teams extensively in our org, and we have a mix of M1 and Intel Macs, and we also have an electron app we maintain (and our QA uses an M1 Mac for testing).
They don't support Linux applications, they don't support the main Linux browser. They don't want you to use Linux
- Except WSL
  
  That's so people who want/need Linux can stay on Windows.
  
  Extend and Extinguish. Why move when you can just usr our WSL? Get used to it, get reliant on it. Then we'll fuck you over.
Teams is very bugged...
I do teams meetings all the time.
- The issue is just for 1 on 1 phone calls, meetings seem to work fine.
  
  Yeah, I can get into meetings with Firefox, as I did yesterday.
  
  Huh???

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