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Outlook broken on Firefox for 6 months – MS recommend switch to Edge

44 points by countrymile 5y ago

paulryanrogers 5y ago
Cannot read without logging in to Live?
- wanderer_ 5y ago
  Works fine for me....
maverick74 5y ago
Really?! I'm amazed!!! It's really funny how Google services' - and now Microsoft's - just keep on failing on Firefox. Even more amazing is that they take soo many time to fix and never before another one takes it's place. Now... One could argue that's a result of a different rendering engine... But also funny is that it happens between chrome and edge also, sometimes... Go figure... And that's why I keep using Firefox...
- watermelon0 5y ago
  It's probably not malicious. I don't quite know what their target audience is, but from my experience businesses (on desktop) primarily use Chromium based browsers, with a few percent of Safari users. From business perspective, it can be quite reasonable to treat Safari bugs as low-ish priority, and just not dedicate any time to ensure other browsers work correctly. Of course this changes if you also need to support mobile/tablet devices, where iOS/Safari is similarly popular (if not more, depending on the location of your users) to Android/Chromium. However, they should definitely update documentation, if they don't intent to keep FF support.
MonaroVXR 5y ago
I use 3 browsers, everything from Microsoft and G-mail in Chrome. Normal browsing in Firefox, which I use the most. Developing Edge. WebKit browser for testing, but I do use all the above for testing too.
PhantomBKB 5y ago
I use the outlook desktop app. It's decent
- nsonha 5y ago
  why do you need an app for each email provider that's ridiculous. If I use an app it'll just be some native email client
  - watermelon0 5y ago
    Outlook is a native email client, supporting any email provider.
    - nsonha 5y ago
      right I've been so used to outlook as an email service that I forget MS Outlook existed long before that
mrtweetyhack 5y ago
mr_toad 5y ago
It barely works on Edge. How an email program can fill the network console with pages and pages of network requests just to open the inbox I can’t fathom.
durnygbur 5y ago
For months the top bar with "Home", "My Network" etc in LinkedIn had been blank white in Firefox. In Chrome worked fine. Regarding Outlook - many corporations literally lock their web apps to work only with Win10/11 + Edge for "security reasons" and Microsoft is happy to deliver it.
aitchnyu 5y ago
Teams calls don't work with Firefox or Chromium, only with Edge or Chrome or Chromium which spoofs Firefox.
T3RMINATED 5y ago
egberts1 5y ago
No thanks. Gonna switch to a different email provider. Oh wait, I don’t use MDN or its derivative thereof. (Whew)

44 points by countrymile 5y ago

paulryanrogers 5y ago

Cannot read without logging in to Live?

wanderer_ 5y ago
Works fine for me....

maverick74 5y ago

Really?! I'm amazed!!! It's really funny how Google services' - and now Microsoft's - just keep on failing on Firefox. Even more amazing is that they take soo many time to fix and never before another one takes it's place. Now... One could argue that's a result of a different rendering engine... But also funny is that it happens between chrome and edge also, sometimes... Go figure... And that's why I keep using Firefox...

watermelon0 5y ago
It's probably not malicious. I don't quite know what their target audience is, but from my experience businesses (on desktop) primarily use Chromium based browsers, with a few percent of Safari users. From business perspective, it can be quite reasonable to treat Safari bugs as low-ish priority, and just not dedicate any time to ensure other browsers work correctly. Of course this changes if you also need to support mobile/tablet devices, where iOS/Safari is similarly popular (if not more, depending on the location of your users) to Android/Chromium. However, they should definitely update documentation, if they don't intent to keep FF support.

MonaroVXR 5y ago

I use 3 browsers, everything from Microsoft and G-mail in Chrome. Normal browsing in Firefox, which I use the most. Developing Edge. WebKit browser for testing, but I do use all the above for testing too.

PhantomBKB 5y ago

I use the outlook desktop app. It's decent

nsonha 5y ago
why do you need an app for each email provider that's ridiculous. If I use an app it'll just be some native email client
- watermelon0 5y ago
  Outlook is a native email client, supporting any email provider.
  - nsonha 5y ago
    right I've been so used to outlook as an email service that I forget MS Outlook existed long before that

mrtweetyhack 5y ago

mr_toad 5y ago

It barely works on Edge. How an email program can fill the network console with pages and pages of network requests just to open the inbox I can’t fathom.

durnygbur 5y ago

For months the top bar with "Home", "My Network" etc in LinkedIn had been blank white in Firefox. In Chrome worked fine. Regarding Outlook - many corporations literally lock their web apps to work only with Win10/11 + Edge for "security reasons" and Microsoft is happy to deliver it.

aitchnyu 5y ago

Teams calls don't work with Firefox or Chromium, only with Edge or Chrome or Chromium which spoofs Firefox.

T3RMINATED 5y ago

egberts1 5y ago

No thanks. Gonna switch to a different email provider. Oh wait, I don’t use MDN or its derivative thereof. (Whew)