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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by kennydude on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:49AM (#17977281)
It gets worse.

Google Hangouts Meet doesn't work in anything but Chrome.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by gsnedders on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:25AM (#17977456)
Meet works fine in Firefox nowadays.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by kennydude on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:31AM (#17977481)
That's changed recently o-o

Woo!

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by vetinari on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:45AM (#17977820)
With Firefox 60, actually.

So it works even with the current ESR.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by swsieber on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:16PM (#17980405)
But was that on purpose or only incidentally?
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by gsnedders on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:25PM (#17980485)
On purpose; remember they whitelist UAs. Hangouts and Meet both supporting Firefox now was a deliberate move, enabled by Hangouts/Meet moving to the current WebRTC draft protocol (versus some much older one) and by Firefox introducing supports for some further JS APIs to monitor the WebRTC connection.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by Izkata on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:39PM (#17983920)
I'm not so certain.

About a month ago, on a fully-updated Firefox, one of those (I forget if Hangouts or Meet) refused to start for me, saying Firefox was not supported.

Even now, every time I'm in a Hangout, it'll work on Firefox, then after exiting it redirects to a page that says Firefox isn't supported.

It's like the user-agent check was switched with something less reliable.

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