Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox

qaz@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 1085 points –

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

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Just change your Useragent, Microsoft is a bunch of dummies and didn't even bother to code it in a way that makes sense as a DRM lmfao.

I had to look it up, here's what I found (please correct me if I got it wrong):

To change the user agent in Firefox, you can use the built-in Developer Tools. Here's how you can do it:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Press Ctrl + Shift + I on Windows or Cmd + Option + I on macOS to open the Developer Tools.
  3. Click on the "Network" tab.
  4. Look for a small icon that looks like a mobile phone and a tablet together, usually located at the top-right of the Network tab. This is the "Responsive Design Mode" button. Click on it.
  5. Once in Responsive Design Mode, you'll see a dropdown menu at the top of the screen where you can select different user agents (like various mobile devices, different browsers, etc.).

Remember, changing the user agent can sometimes lead to unexpected behavior on websites, as it tells the website that you're using a different browser or device than you actually are. This is usually used for testing and development purposes.

Edit: a word

And here I was just setting general.useragent.override each time.

Fun fact: Some time in past Firefox used to support per-domain overrides (without add-ons).

There's an addon that can do it and remember the setting per domain or website.

I, for one, would appreciate a link to said addon

I've used: User Agent Switcher

Successfully using;

  1. Whitelist mode
  2. Domain = teams.microsoft.com
  3. UserAgentString = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Awesome I was on my phone so I couldn't quickly check what addon I was using.

There are add-ons to select a different user agent without getting that technical.

Sure, but the point is that you shouldn't have to. There should be cross-compatibility.