Open Teams links in edge PWA, for all other links, use firefox (Linux Ubuntu)

custom_browser_opener.sh

#!/bin/bash

# URL passed to the script
url="$1"
edge_path="/path/to/microsoft-edge"

# Check if the URL is a Teams link
if [[ "$url" == *"teams.microsoft"* ]]; then
  # opens edge PWA
  $edge_path --profile-directory=Default --app="$url"
else
  # Opens all other links in Firefox
  firefox "$url"
fi

Teams_PWA_links.md

Open Teams links in edge PWA, for all other links, use firefox (Linux Ubuntu)

Teams on Linux is currently only available as Progressive Web App (PWA). However, PWA are only supported in chromium-based browsers. For a multitude of reasons, you might not want to use chromium-based browsers as your default browser. This script opens links to teams in the PWA while opening all other links in your default browser (here: firefox).

Setting up the PWA script

1. Install edge / chrome / ...
2. Install PWA for teams
3. Find the path to edge / chrome:

• whereis microsoft-edge
• whereis chrome

4. copy the path into the custom_browser_opener.sh script
5. Save the script at your favourite location e.g. your home location
6. make it executable: chmod +x ~/custom_browser_opener.sh

Register the Script as a URL Handler

1. Create a .desktop file for the script. For example, yourname-custom_browser_opener.desktop, Note that the name must contain a vendor prefix separated by a dash (-)
2. Replace /home/yourusername/custom_browser_opener.sh with the actual path to your script.
3. Register the .desktop file with your system:

xdg-desktop-menu install /path/to/yourname-custom_browser_opener.desktop
xdg-mime default yourname-custom_browser_opener.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default yourname-custom_browser_opener.desktop x-scheme-handler/https

yourname-custom_browser_opener.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Custom Browser Opener
Exec=/home/yourusername/custom_browser_opener.sh %u
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

Unfortunately, this does not work too well after the "New Teams" update...
Don't expect a fix in the near future.

Unfortunately, this does not work too well after the "New Teams" update...

It seems there is now a surprisingly simple solution for this.

Replace
$edge_path --profile-directory=Default --app-id=$app_id "$url"
with
$edge_path --profile-directory=Default --app="$url"

Steps to find the app_id of the PWA are not needed anymore.

This works for me on Ubuntu 24.04.3 (LTS).

Unfortunately, this does not work too well after the "New Teams" update...

It seems there is now a surprisingly simple solution for this.

Replace $edge_path --profile-directory=Default --app-id=$app_id "$url" with $edge_path --profile-directory=Default --app="$url"

Steps to find the app_id of the PWA are not needed anymore.

This works for me on Ubuntu 24.04.3 (LTS).

Thank you for the update! I tried it out on 22.04 and it works really well. I updated the gist accordingly.

Do you happen to have an easy solution for how to also make this work from Firefox? I can only find workouts by using a "mock protocol handler" and a browser extension that redirects teams.microsoft.com/meet/ to this handler.

Unfortunately no, that seems to be difficult to achieve.