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.
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.
hardware acceleration appears to be off - i should turn it on?
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.
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.
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.
That’s fair - it seems to depend on if you’re using the Windows 11 consumer version or the current enterprise version.
To add to the confusion there is also Teams 2.0 for work on windows but the enterprise admin has to enable it in the Office 365 environment.
Luckily, that’s me, and I’ve managed to try it out. For once, this is actually an improvement. It’s still teams, but it’s far more performant and doesn’t use 4GB+ to sit there checking for notifications.
We tried it as well couple of months ago, it was terrible. Lots of basic features didn’t work. We disabled the rollout. They also seem to have delayed the rollout at MS.
The current Teams version seems to rely on AngularJS we found out recently…