I had to call someone using Microsoft Teams today. It does not work with Firefox, even if you spoof the user agent.
I don't know what's up with your setup, but this is untrue. I've used Firefox for teams in browser for years with no issues.
I can try again with a friend on Momday. Is there a specific user agent extension or a about:config option you used?
Honestly no, I have a bunch of extensions but I never took specific action to make teams work. You do have to make sure popup are allowed and ublock and similar tools don't interfere with it, but it worked for me.
You might try grabbing a portable Firefox install from Portable Apps and testing that.
I had the same issue. It works but crashed once I went into a call.
I have Edge for two things: Teams and Outlook.
The desktop software for both is so bad, I can't even use them half of the time.
Outlook actually works in FF, but that way I can put it on my second screen and use Firefox on my main one so I don't need to switch tabs when emails come in.
You know you can have Firefox open a second window, right?
Yeah but occasionally FF hangs and I want to avoid force closing the wrong one through the task manager.
Like Chrome Firefox has an internal Task manager at: about:processes
You could try opening it in a second window. It might show you what causes the hang. There is also: about:memory to see where the RAM went. It's a bit more technical though.
Oh cool, didn't know that one yet, thanks a bunch!
Not a big fan of MS Teams but... it's worked for me before in the past. PEBCAK.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at?
Microsoft has been playing this game since forever.
He's getting at Firefox being unusable for one of his usecases. Though i guess you could argue that he could just use something like brave specifically for that use case while using Firefox for other stuff
Yeah, I guess I mean that I'm surprised anyone is surprised when an MS product unexpectedly doesn't work in a non-microsoft environment.
You should be surprised, that is unfair competition.
They've been doing that forever.
And Antitrust in different countries forced them to comply with the law.
No it didn't.
Ms does this all the time and gets away with it all the time.
I had to call someone using Microsoft Teams today. It does not work with Firefox, even if you spoof the user agent.
I don't know what's up with your setup, but this is untrue. I've used Firefox for teams in browser for years with no issues.
I can try again with a friend on Momday. Is there a specific user agent extension or a about:config option you used?
Honestly no, I have a bunch of extensions but I never took specific action to make teams work. You do have to make sure popup are allowed and ublock and similar tools don't interfere with it, but it worked for me.
You might try grabbing a portable Firefox install from Portable Apps and testing that.
I had the same issue. It works but crashed once I went into a call.
I have Edge for two things: Teams and Outlook.
The desktop software for both is so bad, I can't even use them half of the time.
Outlook actually works in FF, but that way I can put it on my second screen and use Firefox on my main one so I don't need to switch tabs when emails come in.
You know you can have Firefox open a second window, right?
Yeah but occasionally FF hangs and I want to avoid force closing the wrong one through the task manager.
Like Chrome Firefox has an internal Task manager at: about:processes
You could try opening it in a second window. It might show you what causes the hang. There is also: about:memory to see where the RAM went. It's a bit more technical though.
Oh cool, didn't know that one yet, thanks a bunch!
Not a big fan of MS Teams but... it's worked for me before in the past. PEBCAK.
I'm not quite sure what you're getting at?
Microsoft has been playing this game since forever.
He's getting at Firefox being unusable for one of his usecases. Though i guess you could argue that he could just use something like brave specifically for that use case while using Firefox for other stuff
Yeah, I guess I mean that I'm surprised anyone is surprised when an MS product unexpectedly doesn't work in a non-microsoft environment.
You should be surprised, that is unfair competition.
They've been doing that forever.
And Antitrust in different countries forced them to comply with the law.
No it didn't.
Ms does this all the time and gets away with it all the time.
Why not just download the teams app?
The Teams app is probably just Chromium pointed to the teams website. Might as well have Chrome/Chromium installed at that point.