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Have to find something for their engineers to do so they don't have time to make Teams usable

Myg what a dumpster fire Teams is... it deserves a few separate threads just for its jokes called "usability improvements".

The problem is that Azure Devops implements the same brain-dead text formatting behavior. It is such a pain to use compared to GitHub.

If anything, teams is now more unusable.

I have set Firefox as deault web browser, but Teams still opens urls in Edge. And I could not find a way to fix it, or identify why Teams is doing it?

That is a particularly annoying thing. The good news is that you can fix that, even though you shouldn't have to.

Open Edge and go to Settings > Profiles > Profile preferences and toggle off "Use Microsoft Edge to open links from other Microsoft apps".

God, that's such a typical new-Microsoft dark pattern; hiding the toggle for an annoyance in some weird location, hoping the user doesn't find it. It's everywhere in Windows 10.

> identify why Teams is doing it?

Probably to increase the friction of using other browsers. It will be simpler for many users to keep all their bookmarks, history, and saved passwords in one browser. If Microsoft's products require Edge, it's going to channel more users to Edge due to reduced friction.

I have Firefox as my default browser, and all of my teams links open in Firefox.

I’m not sure you have things configured correctly, or your Organization has added some thirty-party security stuff on top of Teams.

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