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MS Teams video and voice doesn't work at all in Firefox. Google "gadgets" don't work in mobile Firefox unless you spoof the user agent. There are also a handful of other sites I've run into where certain functionality only works in chrome based browsers. Sometimes, spoofing the user agent is enough to get it working in firefox.

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> MS Teams video and voice doesn't work at all in Firefox

Actually, I noticed voice started working last month. I could see the video but not send mine, but it might in the future.

Please don't force Teams on anybody though, this is unacceptable in 2022 for a company like Microsoft when its alternatives have been working in Firefox for years.

It didn't work at all in Chromium too, because apparently it relied on the Widevine DRM on Chrome (?!). That's nuts. That's bullshit. If you don't have it, it fails with an obscure error message like "Unable to join the conference" without any reason. Good luck guessing why.

If video and sound don’t work in firefox it sounds more like a microsoft issue than a firefox issue. Webcam and Microphone APIs are following the standard and are well documented on MDN.

Sounds like user agent / window.navigator sniffing in order to block the browser.

Classic microsoft. They will never change.

Oh, it's absolutely Microsoft's fault. In this case they are using (or at least were) pre-standard chrome specific apis.

The problem isn't that Firefox is bad. It's that many site are designed specifically for chrome, and they don't bother testing against Firefox. And for the average user, all they really notice is thay some sites don't work in Firefox.

Which I what many here who worked through the IE dominance have been warning against - yet the only thing we hear is that other browsers are the “new IE”.

Video and voice worked last I tested so long as I spoofed a Firefox Windows UA rather than Firefox Linux...

>Google "gadgets" don't work in mobile Firefox unless you spoof the user agent.

how is that firefox problem if the service is actively hostile towards firefox?

It's not. That doesn't change the fact that some sites work better on chrome. Just like some sites worked best in IE, back when that was the dominant browser.

so the work is about informing firefox of broken websites.

Voice and screensharing support on FF (but no video camera) is supposedly coming soon from MS: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/04/06/microsoft-teams-in-firefox...

Zoom recording playback doesn't work in FF for me either.

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