New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers

Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by rhn_mk1 on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:41AM (#19336717)

I think all the people saying that Chrome will become the new IE 6 can feel vindicated. It's one thing if the browser manufacturer restricts their websites to it, but it's an entirely different thing if unrelated parties start doing it.

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by m-p-3 on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:25AM (#19337256)

One of the many reasons why I switched back to Firefox, among extensions support on mobile.

We need an open competitor to push back, not align themselves with Google's interests.

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by stef25 on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:31AM (#19337738)

I switched from Chrome to FF and it's been painless. Better privacy, no downsides.

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by jfk13 on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:36AM (#19337785)

This brings https://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/08/choose-firefox-now-or-l... to mind (again).

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by ktjfi on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:02AM (#19337126)

Edge will start using WebKit... I mean Blink, so it's not an unrelated party anymore.

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by skinnymuch on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:24AM (#19337675)

Edge is going to use Blink, same engine as Chrome. They are related.

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by ekianjo on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:01AM (#19336812)

We are not talking about simple websites here, but full fledged web applications. Note that Slack does exactly the same thing for non major browsers by blocking them out completely.

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by macNchz on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:57AM (#19337102)

That was also the argument for why many things needed to be IE-only back in the day, since they needed ActiveX to be full on web applications.

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Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers by sciurus on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:20AM (#19336902)

Wow, I'm shocked to see they block browsers they haven't whitelisted, but it's right there in their docs: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/115002037526-Minimu...

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