Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox

Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by Bigpet on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:46AM (#20818799)

Yeah, I've been doing the same thing. Although I only use it for text chatting in the browser. I don't know if video or audio calls work with it.

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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by hawski on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:57AM (#20818861)

Video calls do work.

There is an extension, that will change the UA only for Skype: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/firefox-web-skyp...

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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by userbinator on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:06AM (#20818927)

There are plenty of extensions that will let you change the UA for any site; having yet another one with such a narrow function seems to me like those "we have a smartphone app too" whose only purpose is to open the browser to their site.

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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by andrewshadura on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:55AM (#20820396)

Just add this to your prefs.js/about:config

  user_pref("general.useragent.override.web.skype.com", "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36");

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Re:Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox by hawski on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:01AM (#20819826)

But if it's your only use of such a thing, as it is for me, it's just one click away. You can also feel reasonably safe as the extension works only on Skype's web sites per Web Extension manifest.

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