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dathinab on July 31, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019

Many major video conference applications don't even try to support Firefox, so I'm not surprised that during this time frame a lot of users where forced/coerced to switch.

Offenders include:

- Teams

- Slack

- Zoom

Sure there are codec license issues, but all(most) of them do use different codecs depending on the context, so they could totally support Firefox as long as no one in the conference is on a of Android device or similar.

perryizgr8 on Aug 1, 2021 [–]

Each of those has a native app. Why would anyone be forced to switch browsers? Just install the app.

dathinab on Aug 2, 2021 | [–]

Most people don't want to install apps on their computer for a single or a small number of meetings.

Furthermore at least the Teams app in Linux it's really bad.

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