cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10829773

Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox

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

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[–] 95 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Exactly, this is how Microsoft operates. This time they gave an excuse they still allow plenty of other browsers (with the same engine). Google loves it, because it hurts Firefox and they can say they are not responsible for 3rd parties blocking sites.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is coordinated based on lessons learned with IE.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a bonus it gives companies that want to use or allow Firefox a reason to use Google Workspace because Google Meet works perfectly on Firefox.

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    people using user agent switcher so they can use bullshit like teams probably introduces errors into the statistics so microsoft can claim most users use chromium anyway.

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Does it work if you change your user agent?

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    Teams is shit in any form. Slowest app to launch on my M2 MacBook Pro, but it’s what we use where I work so I have no choice.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Should be better with v2, normally. V1 uses electron and an old angular version which both were slow as fuck and used a shit ton of resources. I also think electron doesnt support the arm platform yet? (citation needed).

    Anyway, v2 uses react and a better webapp engine to run as an app so it should be faster. Not surprised if it still ran as shit though haha

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Frankly it is garbage anyway. We currently use it in my company and there's no other option and I think teams is the worst conferencing app so far.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've been open minded to it but got my first impression of it in the wild recently when we had a meeting with an intl supplier that uses it, and have to agree it sucked. Aside from the organiser being late, everyone else was ready to start, but other parties on supplier end could not approve our entry because they didn't set the meeting. Apparently we could work around it if we created Microsoft accounts.within 30 seconds I started an instant Google meet and sent them a pre-approved link to join, and upon joining the call they expressed surprise about how easy that was.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You could have also tried with jitsi since it is foss and doesn't require an account.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They don't support Linux applications, they don't support the main Linux browser. They don't want you to use Linux

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Teams is very bugged...

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    I do teams meetings all the time.

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