It’s just infuriating, there is no good reason for not supporting firefox
It it’s any consolation, it barely works under ideal conditions anyway.
I thought it might be sensible on Linux to use MS Edge for Teams (the PWA version).
Nope, it’s just as shit in Microsoft’s own browser. There is apparently no saving it.Teams doesn’t work properly in browsers. Doesn’t matter of it’s Firefox or Edge. It will randomly crash for no reason.
Firefox even is hardcoded to present itself as “Chrome on Windows” when visiting Teams.
Chrome is becoming the modern Internet Explorer. “Oh, yeah, the site only really works in IE for some reason…”
Chrome is the new IE in terms of support. “Best viewed in Chrome”
Safari is the new IE in terms of weird bugs that no other browser encounters. Some of their web APIs like LocalStorage and IndexedDB still have odd quirks (but at least they’re not completely broken any more).
Ye, i remember they mentioning this, and people i know confirm it works fine. It just doesnt work on my end. I do have firefox set up to be very private though ( no 3th party cookies and more )
That’s definitely a part of it. All of the MS web platforms rely heavily on first and third party cookies. You can’t even log in properly to Teams if your browser is in incognito/private mode.
Ye, ive added the needed exceptions for *.teams.com, lync and skype just to login…
Logged out Teams can cause some unexpected issues, like not being able to use Emergency Dialing.
Logged out Teams spamming the dialer provider is Microsoft’s bug, but Google fucked up when it comes to dialing 911.
That’s gotta make the Microsoft dev team confused. How can they call out Firefox in Teams if it doesn’t even identify itself as such?
Teams barely even works in Teams
Also this
I am one of the last to defend Microsoft but I just tried it with Firefox 118.0.1 64-Bit on Win11 22H2 22621.2134 with uBlock Origin enabled.
Loaded a good few times but it loaded and can chat.
Seems more like a you problem!I.D.10-T error, probably.
Weird, for me it does work.
Same, maybe some extension conflict?
Don’t know, I only got youtube dislike and ublock addon, it also doesn’t work for my friends tho
It’s probably ublock origin
I have uBlock Origin and it doesn’t do the thing displayed in the picture.
Maybe they’re using custom lists
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uBlock’s behaviour depends on which lists you’re using.
Are they all on Linux too?
Teams is a fucking joke and I hate it.
Login loops, cookie mess, until recently calling not supported on Firefox (like what?)
I mean it’s 2023 and you come up with this abomination, Microsoft?
Teams should be illegal at this point.
Can’t forget it’s just reskinned Skype for Business. It was shit back in the day, but at least everything else was shitty aswell.
In our company we self host Rocket.Chat, and damn me if it isn’t the best thing ever. It just fucking works, flawlessly.
Microsoft Teams has a completely different technical base than Skype for Business. Other platform, other language, other tech stack, other APIs, other protocols, other features. The one that just was a reskinned something was Skype for Business, formerly known as Lync, formerly known as Office Communicator, formerly known as Windows Messenger, formerly known as Exchange Conferencing, …
What was the name of that thing before they gave it the skypeful makeover and added a bunch of useless annoying features? It was actually pretty good back then. Every redesign since then it’s been getting worse and worse.
Edit: I just remembered it was called Lync.
Oh, I don’t recognize that name. I ve only been using MST for a year now at a new job. Since I am a contractor for another company, I still use self hosted Rocket.Chat instance, with Jitsi integration so we can also do calls.
How recently did calling become supported? About a month ago I was still unable to even log in using Firefox unless I used a user agent switcher, and even then only text-based messaging worked.
I read somewhere Firefox now changes its user agent automatically for Teams, maybe that fixed it.
Teams doesn’t work on anything
Works on my work laptop with windows 11
Good for you!
Oh I have it installed on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. It doesn’t work. It takes ages to load, it never updates people’s status correctly, half the time it doesn’t even log in. Why they didn’t just patch Skype instead of making that pile of garbage is beyond me.
My company uses SSO with Microsoft Exchange and it works flawlessly.
Fixing the login doesn’t fix the rest of Teams’ problems. Maybe you’re the chosen one and everything works for you, but it’s not a common experience.
Switch agent to Google Chrome / Chromium and things will work magically.
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It doesnt work on my systems ( firefox + windows, not linux ) either. With some user agent magic (tricking its running on safari/ios) it works… Except when you enable your camera in teams >>
Shitsoft teams doesn’t work
on firefoxFTFY
I unfortunately have to work regularly with Ms teams and it’s a gargantuan shit show that doesn’t work, period. Why anyone would want to even use this is beyond me. About 6 months ago I posted a list of over 20 bugs on Reddit in the /teams sub reddit and I just got flooded with replies like “liar” and “you suck”
Fuck everything about sucksoft
I thought teams sucked as a user experience… my last job, well my last job I was IT. If it involved a computer I was involved.
Anyways, administrating teams is a fucking god awful nightmare, honestly a lot of Microsoft’s eco system is awful as a sysadmin. But teams and sharepoint take the cake for being fucked.
Don’t know what settings/configs/add-ons you got, but at the college I go to, they don’t allow modifications on school computers. Teams, which I am forced to use in 3 of my classes and it just works.
Mine works in my pc as well
Do you have enhanced tracking protection on? Knowing Microsoft you might need to disable it for teams to work right
They told me in the UI to turn it off.
It could be the issue or OP didnt read the error message.People don’t read error messages, even if they describe exactly what to do to fix the problem. :(
Firefox’s tracking protection is very aggressive and breaks some sites because it incorrectly thinks a first-party domain is actually a third-party one. For example, for some sites it thought the CDN at a separate domain was a third-party domain and blocked all the JS from loading. At work I’ve had to make a bunch of fixes to the disconnect.me list they use.
Work fine for me in Firefox on Linux.
Works fine for me on Firefox on Windows10 on an old thinkpad that can barely run Google Meet now.
Can you join Teams meetings in Firefox? I think that’s the only real issue I’ve had with it.
Spoof your browser to be a chromium sht like chrome. Let’s you join voice calls but I haven’t tested camera and screen sharing. I use chameleon addon for that.
So far so good. :/
Honestly the native Linux app was buggy for me and the web version is a lot more stable. Not ideal, but I suppose I should be happy the overlords even allow me to connect from a Linux machine.
Have you tried running the windows version in wine?
is it just not working on firefox or artificially not supporting it? if the second option is true, then i think there’s a way to spoof websites into thinking you’re running chrome.
Not sure, I can login and all, but chats, etc. don’t render
I’ve seen the exact same behaviour in the actual teams client on Windows. I think it’s likely just a bug.
I think it’s a bug too since I’m using teams web interface fine on Linux. I don’t like it but it works for meetings.
Teams does not have bugs, it has features.
it’s a feature for digital wellbeing! if the software isn’t rendering chats, you can spend more time meditating and touching grass! because YOU “matter”!
- microsoft, probably
I’ve found it works with Firefox but breaks a lot with Ublock (with a lot of filters enabled) or URL cleaning apps, for what it’s worth.
