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Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by hellcow on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:38AM (#35031153)
Not just nightly. Stable is blocked as well.

Seems we're in the next IE-era.

Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by yokoprime on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:42AM (#35031193)
Then there is an error. Teams supports FF stable, they have even made efforts to improve support

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filter...

Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by lousken on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:48AM (#35031291)
both nighly and stable ff is broken - my mother couldn't access her meeting in Firefox the other day because Teams said "you only have to use Edge or Chrome"
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by AshamedCaptain on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:04PM (#35032198)
This is absolutely true. There are some types of meetings (likely the ones which are MS Stream-based -- but as a plain user this is impossible to detect) where upon joining you will get the dreaded message about incompatible browser.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by drowsspa on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:45AM (#35031250)
I don't know what is "support" for them, but I've never been able to make calls in it. Only the chat function works.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by warner25 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:53AM (#35031339)
That's what I was thinking too. I have to keep Chrome installed on my Linux machine exclusively to use Teams for voice and video calls, since calls have never been possible in Firefox and the Linux desktop client is so buggy.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by vetinari on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:04PM (#35031487)
Linux desktop client seems to be dead; as of last week, trying to download the deb or rpm package results into 404.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by csncsu on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:44AM (#35031234)
The posted link is to the error page. https://teams.microsoft.com works in FF stable.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by KMnO4 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:55AM (#35031372)
Oh wow, I clicked on that link on mobile and was unable to go back. Pressing the back button just redirected to the same page over and over again. Usually you only see that on malicious ad sites.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by Gare on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:03PM (#35031466)
If you don't know already, long press on the back button solves the problem.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by dpkirchner on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:58PM (#35032123)
Microsoft's largely useless support site does the same thing. There's something weird afoot in that organization.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by foepys on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:00PM (#35032143)
Microsoft's tech forum pages have been highjacking the back button for years now. It's really despicable...
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by hexo on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:47AM (#35031270)
Nope - "We're sorry—we've run into an issue."
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by dr_kretyn on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:13PM (#35031568)
Doesn't work on stable 110.0.1 (64-bit).
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by runxel on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:51PM (#35032660)
Nope, it doesn't. FF stable on MacOS.

Teams is, was, and will be the absolut worst. They only won, because it's bundled into MSO.

Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by 29athrowaway on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:45AM (#35031246)
Microsoft has always lived in the same era.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by xattt on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:48AM (#35031290)
> Seems we're in the next IE-era

Too bad there is no Register or Inquirer equivalent this time around.

Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by wkat4242 on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:14PM (#35031572)
The register is still there but they're really pro-big business this time around. Recently there was an piece about how happy we should be with all the corporate Linuxes. Bow to our benefactors :)
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by hank_z on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:49AM (#35031298)
I can use Teams on the stable version without any issues. You might have cross-origin cookies disabled, which will stop Teams from working. PS. FF:v110.0.1 (64-bit), macOS: 13.2.1.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by askonomm on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:54AM (#35031364)
Those cookies are disabled by default in Firefox. Are you saying that to successfully use Teams one has to alter their browser configuration to make it _less secure_?
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by hank_z on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:15PM (#35031585)
I believe it's website specific. Office 365 Teams (teams.microsoft.com) will request users to grant certain permissions when it's visited.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by hank_z on Sunday March 05, 2023 @11:53AM (#35031336)
Oops, sorry. I was using the Office 365 Teams (teams.microsoft.com), which runs ok on FF. I can confirm the Teams for the personal account (https://teams.live.com/_#/unsupportedBrowser) is not supported in FF.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by aendruk on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:06PM (#35031504)
> the next IE-era

the WebKit Wide Web

Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by bouke on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:11PM (#35031549)
Doesn’t work in Safari on default settings either, it complains about disabling tracking prevention. Mo thanks. Also, ITP is a few years old by now, support it already. So more like Chromium Wide Web.
Re:Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly by aendruk on Sunday March 05, 2023 @12:19PM (#35031634)
Spoken as if “ITP” is some web standard. I had to look it up:

> Intelligent Tracking Prevention is a WebKit feature

https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...