• xavier666@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I am forced to use Chromium on my work laptop because MS Teams doesn’t work (all the features) on Firefox.

    Edit: I should elaborate this a bit. There are 2 reasons why I use Chromium on my machine.

    1. If I face a problem, company tech team only knows Chrome and they start crying when I open Firefox.
    2. On Linux, the official way to use Teams is through a web-app and Firefox doesn’t support PWAs.

    All other MS services function fine on Firefox.

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        1 year ago

        Same. I use furefox for everything* at work, despite everything being heavily integrated with teams, sharepoint, et.al.

        *: The only thing that doesn’t work with firefox is this inhouse web service that hasn’t been updated since 2017. It’s about to be replaced anyway, so nobody bothered to fix/update it.

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        1 year ago

        Simple one-to-one calling is disabled saying it’s only available on Chrome. I’m pretty sure it’s recent since I had calls a few months back on Firefox. I’m also sure that it’s not some group policy since I’m on Ubuntu without any sort of ActiveDirectory so it’s a pure browser issue. Also, they force the old UI in Firefox due to some reason. Typical BS from Microsoft.

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            1 year ago

            In a just world, the fact of changing the user agent fixing the issues would make for a slam-dunk anti-trust case.

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            I’ve tried it today and yeah, 1-to-1 calls magically/unsurprisingly start working. In fact, the whole UI gets a facelift and lots of new features.

            If I had to guess, I’d say Microsoft keeps around a version of their UI, which hasn’t been maintained in over a year, and serves that to anyone initiating communication with a user-agent string they don’t like.

            If that’s true, that’s a massive security vulnerability. Admittedly, also unsurprising for Microsoft. @xavier666@lemm.ee

    • dan@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I use Firefox as my primary browser and run the teams app.

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      1 year ago

      they start crying when I open Firefox.

      Good. Use it anyway, and bathe in their tears!