Teams Phone Fix by dev-rke

4.3 Stars out of 5

Review by grahamperrin

by grahamperrin, 5 years ago

Used with Firefox 74.0 – on FreeBSD-CURRENT, to which Microsoft Teams is not ported.

The extension's preset string for Chrome 79 is effective.

This (custom) string from an installed version of Edge did not have the required effect:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36 Edge/18.18363

This terse string was good for 'Meet now' but not for 'Start a new conversation' (it was necessary to click the Format button to get the I-beam pointer):

Chrome/79.0

– this, no good for Meet now:

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/79.0.3945.74 Safari/537.36

– these, conversations invisible:

Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Edge/79.0.3945.130

AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36 Edge/79.0.3945.130

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/79.0 Safari/537.36 Edge/79.0

Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36 Edge/79.0.3945.130

Developer response

posted 5 years ago

I assume Microsoft Teams dropped support for older versions of Edge (e.g. these with a version number below 20). Only newer Edge browsers are supported - and there they dropped the last "e" in "Edge", so the user agent actually is "Edg/79.0". This was the reason why i made the user agent configurable in the current version 1.1 of this addon, in case there will be some other weird spontaneous changes in Microsoft Teams.