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Sean Jan 6, 2025

It is 2025 and Slack still doesn't have proper support for Linux and Firefox. They blame their usage of the Amazon Chime SDK. Sorry, but Slack is a billion dollar company and they've known about this issue for years. Either fix the dependency yourselves (Slack) or use a better one. Don't tell paying customers to suck it up.

#Slack #Linux #Firefox

Edit: This is the issue that Slack points to:
https://github.com/aws/amazon-chime-sdk-js/issues/2044

Browser support on Linux/Ubuntu (Firefox, Gnome Web etc.) · Issue #2044 · aws/amazon-chime-sdk-js

Hey Chime SDK team. 👋 What are you trying to do? I was checking out your documentation regarding supported devices and platforms and saw that for Linux, only Ubuntu is supported and only by using G...

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Sean

Cisco WebEx and Microsoft Teams work fine with Firefox for Linux.

#Linux #Firefox #Cisco #WebEx #Microsoft #Teams

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Sean Jan 6, 2025

The real culprit is the Amazon AWS team that maintains the Chime SDK. Another billion dollar company, though. So, still no excuse.

Between Slack and Amazon, they should be able to assign an engineer or two to fix this after two years.

I'm not asking for anything free or for it to be fixed immediately. I'm a paying customer of Slack (who I presume is a paying customer of AWS). And, I just want it fixed on a shorter timescale than two years, especially given other communication platforms have figured it out.

https://github.com/aws/amazon-chime-sdk-js/issues/2044

#Amazon #AWS #Chime #Firefox #Linux #Slack