Firefox users trying to open the Skype for Web preview in their browser will be disappointed because Microsoft, which manages Skype, claims Firefox is not supported.
If you try to open Firefox or any other browser that is not based on Microsoft Chrome, preview version of Skype for Web, you will see a message stating "Browser not supported".
We had not noticed it, but it seems that this has been happening for a long time, maybe two years ago. According to the message, the Skype for Web supports only Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. Microsoft asks users to use one of these browsers (and whether they explicitly state it or another Chromium-based browser) or use the desktop program instead. A link to the desktop version is also provided.
The Preview version is a trial version for insider program users. Especially the preview web version is available to all users without having to register somewhere or register your details. To everyone? As you understood not to all, since you have to run Chromium and curiously the Firefox technology "is on the outside". The most mysterious thing in all this is that in the end stable version for Skype for Web, Firefox is supported and running normally !!!!
Microsoft does not disclose why Firefox is "not supported". It is not clear whether the refusal supports is due to technical limitations or
because they want to push specific browsers. A sly thinker user would say that it may have to do with Microsoft's decision to change the Microsoft Edge and use the Chromium engine the 2019.
This is not the first time that major companies have restricted access to websites in certain browsers. Google has a habit of limiting new ones services and leave them open only in Chrome before making them available to other browsers. And Microsoft, like now, also had limited access to some of its services in the past.
