HACKER Q&A
📣 ParetoOptimal

Does Microsoft Teams work in Firefox for you?


On Linux? What version?

As I said in a recent comment:

> Teams loads super slowly or not at all these days as of this morning in Firefox. The page frequently blanks and repaints.

Edit: To clarify the above, I didn't even get to the step of testing calls or screen sharing... this blanking/repainting and sluggishness happened just trying to click on different teams/calendar/etc.

Is this a problem for others? Trying to determine if it might be a problem on my end or yet another instance of platform tilt[0].

0: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt/


  👤 NordSteve Accepted Answer ✓
For reference, here's the support matrix for Teams on the web. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients...

👤 mablopoule
Yes, but partially.

Chat works fine, same thing for meeting, however the online/away/offline status of coworker can be a little janky sometime (often have a blank dot instead), I cannot share my screen from firefox and most annoying of all, if I get a call from firefox (it always goes on my phone only).

So working fine as a daily drive, but still starting Chromium now and then when I know I'll get a call, or I need to share my screen.

I use arch btw.


👤 keikobadthebad
No, I have chrome on my box just for this.

👤 johnea
I've been running teams in chromium after having no luck in firefox.

Even in chromium, it's really shaky, for example: some chat items are not displayed after some time

Teams is a total disaster in my opinion, it's one of the top modern tech trends pushing me towards retirement...


👤 PreInternet01
All is well here on Ubuntu 23.10, Firefox (Snap) 122.0 and 'Teams Classic' as per Office 365, no special opt-ins (like Insider Program) or opt-outs.

There are many different versions of Teams, though, and whatever I'm getting via https://teams.microsoft.com/ may be very different from what you're seeing.

You may want to check if things work better via Chrom(e|ium) first, as that's a low-effort thing?


👤 billybuckwheat
The last time I tried that was about 3 years ago when I started a new job. My work laptop wasn't ready, so I used one of my own running PureOS. Teams worked in Firefox, though sometimes it was a bit sluggish. And I had to turn off cookie blocking.

👤 l0b0
WFM on NixOS unstable. To use screen sharing I need to log into GNOME with X, not Wayland.

👤 shrimp_emoji
Yes (insofar as Microsoft Teams can be said to work at all, even natively on Windows), but calls don't work. I never get the call ring--only the "missed call" notification. They do work on Chrome on Linux, however. RHEL

👤 lgunsch
I haven't checked in many months, but in the past it never has. It kind of semi-works but it's pretty buggy. I use Chrome for teams.

I'm on Arch Linux.


👤 kirke
I use Teams through Firefox on Arch. For me it only ever works for chat, not for calls, video or voice. Chat is working today as usual.

👤 toss1
Yes, no issues here, but it's been a bunch of weeks since I last used Teams on FF

👤 compsciphd
off topic, but slack doesn't really work great in firefox either, they don't support huddles, so if that's something your team uses, one has to poke them to use something else.

👤 ParetoOptimal
Thanks all for letting me know it's not just me.

👤 corndoge
No, I use Chrome just for teams. Arch linux

👤 stop50
With normal user agent: yes.

👤 dbolgheroni
No.