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Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox::Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The teams web app was borked for me on Firefox at one point. Idk if it's still like that. Also Google Chat or whatever tf it's called now disables a bunch of features on Firefox.

Still worth it to switch. 99% of websites work just fine. They basically have to intentionally design sites to not work with FF.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes wtf is Teams doing!? Some arbitrary features are blocked on Firefox, like you can't direct call someone but you can be part of a group call 🤪

But I don't think Microsoft's online suite is a reference, most of it feels buggy or bloated at best.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Makes sense since the browser microsoft pushes on it's users is chrome based.

Just spoof the user agent and it works fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Those are literally restrictions placed by the site in question, not a limitation of Firefox. Get a user agent changer, and set the user agent to the “required” browser, and ~magically~ it will work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was using Firefox I felt like spoofing user agent was essential to make websites work the way they were supposed to. I could loose some rounded corners here and there but it was still better that some features completely missing