is there a way to fix this? unfortunately i’m stuck using teams for work and would rather not use the standalone app or in a chromium browser. however, my firefox browser slows to a crawl and becomes unusable usually at the point where three or four people join a video call. can anybody help me troubleshoot this? i thought firefox was supposed to be supported now.

  • Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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    Not to be flippant, but you could have just stopped at Microsoft Teams running like ass as the problem is Microsoft Teams and its bloated, over-ambitious nature running in fucking Edge via WebView.

    Specific to your case, you seem to be referring to a video call - is Firefox using hardware acceleration? I seem to recall each video feed is its own transcode/render process so if that’s entirely on CPU, it could definitely wreck your performance.

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        Yes. It will allow Firefox to use any graphics processing available which is incredibly more efficient for video workloads.

        Even shitty onboard Intel Iris and similar handle video workloads that much more efficiently.

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        I remember I had to manually turn it on a long while back. I suppose there’s some downside to it being on. IIRC privacy related.

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      Afaik it is not on WebView yet. They plan it for the future but for now it is based on Electron as desktop application, in the Web it is just a PWA. And other Electron applications are fast and work well, example: VS Codium.

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    Change your user agent string to chrome or edge, some of the ‘unsupported features’ will start working too.

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    Probably just bad luck and not at all the “if userAgent==“Firefox”” stuff that’s all over the code. That has nothing to do with it.

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    I run Linux at work in a mostly MS shop.

    You need to use Chrome/Chromium/Edge for the PWA to work; Firefox doesn’t work with it for now.

    Just do that, load the PWA, say a 100 'Fuck M$'s, and move on with your life.

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    If you try to call someone from firefox, you get a message to use edge or chrome instead. So you’ll need to get a chromium-based browser anyways if you ever need to do that.

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    Can’t say I’ve had the same issue, but I only use teams video on rare occasion.

    Not an ideal solution, but if FF isn’t working for you and you don’t want MS / Google stuff installed on your main system, you could spin up a sandbox when you need to hop on Teams. It’ll default to having edge, or you can install the teams app & run it from there.

    If you want some level of persistence you could create a portable Chrome setup that stays logged in and is accessible to your sandbox.

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    Try ferdium. You can add ms teams, as well as other services, it’s isolated and uses the browser (chrome) versions. It works flawlessly for calls, screen sharing, etc… Within the limits of the pile of garbage that ms teams is, if course.

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    install gnome web.
    I’m already using it for accessing my routers control panel since it’s no longer compatible with firefox ever since it updated itself without my consent.