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Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:44 PM UTC

hellcow wrote: post #6

Not just nightly. Stable is blocked as well. Seems we're in the next IE-era.

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Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by 29athrowaway » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

hellcow wrote: post #6

Not just nightly. Stable is blocked as well. Seems we're in the next IE-era.

Microsoft has always lived in the same era.

Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by squeegeeninja » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

prophesi wrote: post #8

Is it blocking Firefox entirely? At least on an M2 Mac, it shows "Your browser isn't supported" running Firefox v110.0.1.

Firefox has been blocked entirely for at least a year now, in my experience.

Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by drowsspa » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:45 PM UTC

yokoprime wrote: post #11

hellcow wrote: post #6

Not just nightly. Stable is blocked as well. Seems we're in the next IE-era.

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...

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: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by bluedino » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:46 PM UTC

Whatever software blocker BIGCORP uses has prevented me from running non-release FF for quite a while at work

Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by doodlesdev » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:47 PM UTC

behnamoh wrote: post #19

Controversial opinion: I used to like Firefox but at some point you have to accept the reality: No developer likes to have 2 backlogs, one for Chrome and one for FF. IMO It's better to adopt Chromium-based browsers and put pressure on Google to avoid letting it become the sole decision-maker about the web.

How the fuck could that happen if their browser engine is the only one supported in most websites and their browser has close to a monopoly when it comes to market share?

Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by hexo » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:47 PM UTC

csncsu wrote: post #20

hellcow wrote: post #6

Not just nightly. Stable is blocked as well. Seems we're in the next IE-era.

The posted link is to the error page. https://teams.microsoft.com works in FF stable.

Nope - "We're sorry—we've run into an issue."

Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by smoldesu » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:47 PM UTC

comfrey wrote: post #2

Any context, reasoning, or background?

I found this: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/20/23607037/microsoft-teams-...

Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by mynameisvlad » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

biehl wrote: post #13

Works for me with the Office 365 Teams. Is the one on live.com different?

They’re in theory built on the same platform, but the live.com version is “Teams for Home”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/teams-for-ho...

Re: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly

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Post by dijit » Sun, Mar 05, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

behnamoh wrote: post #19

Controversial opinion: I used to like Firefox but at some point you have to accept the reality: No developer likes to have 2 backlogs, one for Chrome and one for FF. IMO It's better to adopt Chromium-based browsers and put pressure on Google to avoid letting it become the sole decision-maker about the web.

Respectfully, I don't care that you have two backlogs. Support the prevailing web-standards or lose me as a customer.

I'm already sick of how much I have to kowtow to large companies because they treat developer time as costly, but user time as free.