Microsoft Edge, anyone? - eviltoast

I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn’t ever considered. Including one which means I’ll have to install Edge, so… thanks, I guess. 😂

  • Techognito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Joining calls doesn’t work for me, tried it again a couple of days ago.

    Discord, Jitsi, Google Meet, Nextcloud Talk and everything else works fine in Firefox, only teams refuses to work.

    • Occhioverde@feddit.it
      3·
      1 year ago

      Strange. The other day I had a call on Teams with a customer and had no problems using Firefox 117.0 on NixOS, but I recall that some months ago some features (like microphone and screensharing) where unavailable.

      Maybe Microsoft hasn’t rolled out the update in your region/org?

      • Techognito@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        My org is slow to get updates, that might be it

        edit: tried call from M$ Teams today and got the popup saying :

        Try a different browser This feature isn’t available yet for your browser. Try the web app with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, or switch to the desktop app.

        And then a download link

        I’m on FF117 on Fedora (F38)

        Second edit:

        changing User-Agents worked to remove the popup, but crashed FF instead