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Re:Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division by KORraN on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:43AM (#42057614)
Source? I've been using Slack through Firefox for years, and I remember only one issue - huddles didn't work at the beginning, but it was a minor one, since I use Zoom.
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Re:Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division by tpxl on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:28AM (#42058083)
Huddles worked just fine if you spoofed the user agent, they actively blocked the functionality on firefox.
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Re:Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division by hackingonempty on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:26PM (#42079363)
I went back and investigated: Huddles is blocked and I was using a user agent switcher to get around it. Then I had to switch back to Firefox agent string so Google Meet would work. Apparently my user agent switcher has out of date agent strings for Firefox so Slack started blocking me entirely.

So Slack was blocking me entirely because it thought I was using an out of date Firefox but using the default user agent string it works again.

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