• mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I had to call someone using Microsoft Teams today. It does not work with Firefox, even if you spoof the user agent.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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        6 months ago

        I can try again with a friend on Momday. Is there a specific user agent extension or a about:config option you used?

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          6 months ago

          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.

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      6 months ago

      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.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah but occasionally FF hangs and I want to avoid force closing the wrong one through the task manager.

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            6 months ago

            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.

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      6 months ago

      Not a big fan of MS Teams but… it’s worked for me before in the past. PEBCAK.

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        6 months ago

        The Teams app is probably just Chromium pointed to the teams website. Might as well have Chrome/Chromium installed at that point.