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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by malermeister on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:38AM (#35801111)
I use a Firefox addon that spoofs the user agent for Google-owned sites so it delivers the Chrome version of things.

Works without any issues and it's a much nicer product experience.

Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by kivihiinlane on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:41AM (#35801140)
What is the name of this addon?
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by VHRanger on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @08:41AM (#35801699)
tagging myself in here as well
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by rocketbop on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:06AM (#35801917)
You can favourite HN comments if you just want to come back to them.
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by stronglikedan on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:23AM (#35802087)
To clarify, since it's not obvious in the UI, you have to click the timestamp of the comment, and then you can favorite it.
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by rocketbop on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:40PM (#35804500)
Thanks, I should have mentioned that. A couple of features are hidden in the show comment view.
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by JohnFen on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:11PM (#35808500)
Damn, I've been here for years and never knew that you could favorite things!
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by nextaccountic on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:54PM (#35824423)
Or install this extension https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news to have better UI on HN
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by makiftasova on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:16AM (#35802016)
afaik, pretty much any user-agent changer works. At least that's what one of my colleagues uses to join MS Teams meetings on Firefox. Simply switch your user-agent to Chrome, and it should do the trick.
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by mananaysiempre on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:31AM (#35802170)
On Android, it's one of the very few allowed ones, Google Search Fixer[1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search...

Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by malermeister on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:10AM (#35802606)
This is the one I use, i think: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...

Afair there's also one for YouTube.

Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by nextaccountic on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:53PM (#35824418)
"This add-on is not available on your platform." on Desktop Linux.. what makes this windows only?
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by Avamander on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:49AM (#35801196)
I'm not trying to excuse Google, but feature detection is really hard and browsers sometimes suck with their APIs.

I just recently started using a modified version of the "h265ify" add-on that just advertises support of a few extra codecs (HEVC and surprisingly MPEG-2) to websites. With both Edge and Chrome, I do that because I know the formats work but the API doesn't indicate they do.

Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by dsr_ on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @08:10AM (#35801368)
There's no excuse for not being able to read the user-agent strings of the top five browsers in the world, especially when 2 of them (at least) are your own code base.
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:12PM (#35804141)
Everything is hard if you don't want to do it.
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by VHRanger on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @08:41AM (#35801692)
link?
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by PKop on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:23AM (#35811163)
What are the Chrome version of things specifically? I just wonder what I'm missing out on..
Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by xnx on Thursday May 04, 2023 @07:27PM (#35823455)
Mobile Firefox gets a very basic result page for "weather" for no clear reason.