It’s just infuriating, there is no good reason for not supporting firefox
Firefox even is hardcoded to present itself as “Chrome on Windows” when visiting Teams.
Shitsoft Teams doesn't work on firefox
Submitted 1 year ago by bi_tux@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 year ago
Chrome is becoming the modern Internet Explorer. "Oh, yeah, the site only really works in IE for some reason..."
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Chrome is the new IE in terms of support. “Best viewed in Chrome”
Safari is the new IE in terms of weird bugs that no other browser encounters. Some of their web APIs like LocalStorage and IndexedDB still have odd quirks (but at least they’re not completely broken any more).
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ye, i remember they mentioning this, and people i know confirm it works fine. It just doesnt work on my end. I do have firefox set up to be very private though ( no 3th party cookies )
TwistedFox@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's definitely a part of it. All of the MS web platforms rely heavily on first and third party cookies. You can't even log in properly to Teams if your browser is in incognito/private mode.
Gork@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s gotta make the Microsoft dev team confused. How can they call out Firefox in Teams if it doesn’t even identify itself as such?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I am one of the last to defend Microsoft but I just tried it with Firefox 118.0.1 64-Bit on Win11 22H2 22621.2134 with uBlock Origin enabled.
Loaded a good few times but it loaded and can chat.
Seems more like a you problem!krimson@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Teams is a fucking joke and I hate it.
Login loops, cookie mess, until recently calling not supported on Firefox (like what?)
I mean it’s 2023 and you come up with this abomination, Microsoft?
Teams should be illegal at this point.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only reason it exists is to keep companies trapped in the MS ecosystem. They do this with all kinds of things. For instance at my work it’s required for all engineers to get Azure certified due to a deal we have with MS. They don’t care about their product. They don’t care about their users. Hell they don’t even care about their employees. It’s just B2b == money, all day every day
unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 1 year ago
How recently did calling become supported? About a month ago I was still unable to even log in using Firefox unless I used a user agent switcher, and even then only text-based messaging worked.
krimson@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I read somewhere Firefox now changes its user agent automatically for Teams, maybe that fixed it.
MaximumOverflow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Teams doesn’t work on anything
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Works on my work laptop with windows 11
MaximumOverflow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Oh I have it installed on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. It doesn’t work. It takes ages to load, it never updates people’s status correctly, half the time it doesn’t even log in. Why they didn’t just patch Skype instead of making that pile of garbage is beyond me.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good for you!
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Weird, for me it does work.
reev@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Same, maybe some extension conflict?
bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t know, I only got youtube dislike and ublock addon, it also doesn’t work for my friends tho
RPT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Teams barely even works in Teams
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Also this
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ITT: pretty much everyone who actually tried it reports that OP is wrong
Also, calling them “shitsoft” just makes you seem whiny. If you want to make a serious point about something, don’t do that.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t think, that !mildlyinfuriating is for actually solving tech problems.
It didn’t work for me and some of my friends, so I’m complaining
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
While I agree with you that some people here seem to have the misconception that this is a place for tech support, that comma placement is… mildlyinfuriating.
camelbeard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Teams always has been shit with Firefox, while there is no reason to be shit. Like people said higher in the comments, if you change the user agent to edge magically new features are enabled.
Also Microsoft claimed to support Linux while in reality they made some half assed desktop client, and dropped support about a year later.
Slack was so much better, I really really hate that our office went with teams.
xavier666@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Switch agent to Google Chrome / Chromium and things will work magically.
ilovesatan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Work fine for me in Firefox on Linux.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Works fine for me on Firefox on Windows10 on an old thinkpad that can barely run Google Meet now.
cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let’s not forget that Teams also uses SharePoint as a backend to some of its functions. If ever there was a pile of shit to build on…
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Shitsoft teams doesn’t work
on firefoxFTFY
I unfortunately have to work regularly with Ms teams and it’s a gargantuan shit show that doesn’t work, period. Why anyone would want to even use this is beyond me. About 6 months ago I posted a list of over 20 bugs on Reddit in the /teams sub reddit and I just got flooded with replies like “liar” and “you suck”
Fuck everything about sucksoft
Case@unilem.org 1 year ago
I thought teams sucked as a user experience… my last job, well my last job I was IT. If it involved a computer I was involved.
Anyways, administrating teams is a fucking god awful nightmare, honestly a lot of Microsoft’s eco system is awful as a sysadmin. But teams and sharepoint take the cake for being fucked.
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t know what settings/configs/add-ons you got, but at the college I go to, they don’t allow modifications. Teams, which I am forced to use in 3 of my classes and it just works.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mine works in my pc as well
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It doesnt work on my systems either. With some user agent magic (tricking its running on safari/ios) it works… Except when you enable your camera in teams >>
A10@kerala.party 1 year ago
Fuck this piece of shit software. I’m so done with this. Today, there was an issue with the audio freezing while playing videos embedded in a presentation. Cant even Do the one thing it is supposed to do.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But there is a good reason! The reason is: Promote Edge! /s
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Do you have enhanced tracking protection on? Knowing Microsoft you might need to disable it for teams to work right
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
They told me in the UI to turn it off.
It could be the issue or OP didnt read the error message.dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
People don’t read error messages, even if they describe exactly what to do to fix the problem. :(
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Firefox’s tracking protection is very aggressive and breaks some sites because it incorrectly thinks a first-party domain is actually a third-party one. For example, for some sites it thought the CDN at a separate domain was a third-party domain and blocked all the JS from loading. At work I’ve had to make a bunch of fixes to the disconnect.me list they use.
FQQD@feddit.de 1 year ago
is it just not working on firefox or artificially not supporting it? if the second option is true, then i think there’s a way to spoof websites into thinking you’re running chrome.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not sure, I can login and all, but chats, etc. don’t render
Kushan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve seen the exact same behaviour in the actual teams client on Windows. I think it’s likely just a bug.
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The desktop app won’t work on my machine because it ALWAYS tries to connect to my ActiveDirectory account, but my company doesn’t use Teams so that always fails. It says it can be configured to use a personal account but it lies, and always goes for the AD first. I’m forced to use the web client for any meeting that requires Teams.
min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
I think you have to download a separate version of teams to be able to use it with a personal account only.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I’ve found it works with Firefox but breaks a lot with Ublock or URL cleaning apps, for what it’s worth.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 year ago
I hate teams but sadly I’m forced to use it in school. Our city spent ridiculous amount of money developing an ms SharePoint/office site for all schools so now I’m stuck with shotsoft teams :(
bakedbrahmin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I had some issues with calling within teams on Firefox. I was able to resolve it by installing the Firefox plugin that resolves it.
r00ty@kbin.life 1 year ago
I spent over an hour yesterday trying to fix onedrive sync issues caused by teams yesterday. I hate that software with a vengeance!
Hovenko@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
I am using only flatpak for this garbage.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
I use the teams web interface, it works fine on Linux. Can’t do screen share on Firefox however, only in Chrome, so I switch over when I have to.
j4yt33@feddit.de 1 year ago
Works for me. It’s annoying af but it definitely works, on my personal PC even more reliably than the actual Teams app
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 year ago
not secure enough for firefox. poor microsoft.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
It works fine in librewolf. Whats your user agent?
I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 1 year ago
It it's any consolation, it barely works under ideal conditions anyway.
qupada@kbin.social 1 year ago
I thought it might be sensible on Linux to use MS Edge for Teams (the PWA version).
Nope, it's just as shit in Microsoft's own browser. There is apparently no saving it.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I tried the same thing and was flabbergasted at how badly optimized it is. It take ages to load in all three of the browsers I tried and it’s not even worth it since their feature set is 10 years behind the market!
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Teams doesn’t work properly in browsers. Doesn’t matter of it’s Firefox or Edge. It will randomly crash for no reason.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My favourite example of this is how it handles audio devices. Every other app just uses the default Windows audio devices maybe with an option to change it to something else if you want, but not Teams. It has to handle the choosing of the audio device itself. I once saw this lead to the fantastic situation where the sound in Windows was working fine via someone’s USB headset, but Teams decided it wanted to use the headphone jack built into their laptop dock as it’s audio device instead (no headphones were even plugged in). We manually changed it but it kept defaulting back to the headphone jack every time the dock was disconnected and reconnected! I can’t remember what fixed it in the end, probably just a reinstall or something but it was still a stupid and easily avoidable issue.
mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
This problem also exists on the android app. When I put my ear buds in, teams somehow just refuses to switch to them. No other app has this problem, just teams.