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Fourth

Posted Dec 17, 2025 21:21 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428)
In reply to: Fourth by mathstuf
Parent article: Mozilla gets a new CEO: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

> but I'm going to blame it all on Teams

Yes. That's the problem.

Firefox used to work perfectly fine between say about 2010 - 2020, roundabout.
Now we are back to the bad old times where websites only work correctly with certain browsers.

The answer to that is *not* to just ignore it and say it's somebody else's fault.
Even if in fact it *is* somebody else's fault.
That doesn't help Firefox.
It kills it.

And to the people saying that it's plugins/ublock that break sites:
No, it's not. Almost never does disabling ublock unbreak sites.
This is a fundamental problem.

Fourth

Posted Dec 17, 2025 23:39 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

> The answer to that is *not* to just ignore it and say it's somebody else's fault.

Pray tell, WTF is Mozilla (or indeed, any of us) supposed to do about Microsoft deliberately choosing to degrade functionality on browsers (and/or platforms) other than their own? What will making Firefox into yet another Chrome reskin accomplish?

None of us use Teams _willingly_. Instead it's a requirement for $dayjob. Complain and at best you'll be either ignored -- more likely you'll just be told to "use the app or other supported platform" [1] and/or get written up for violating IT policies. [2]

[1] my new employer's SSO requires Chrome or Edge along with a couple of plugins in order to even _log in_.
[2] processing company data with unapproved software

Fourth

Posted Dec 18, 2025 9:37 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

For me video calls are broken with Firefox and work with Chromium: both on Teams and on Jitsi (and on a trivial html demo file I tried, to see using a camera). This started recently, not sure exactly when. Maybe related to playing with libcamera, and maybe related to another upgrade. Have not had the time to debug this further. Video calls have generally worked better with Chroium than with Firefox: this is not just an issue with Teams.