GUIDE on how to use WhatsApp on Web through Firefox

[Mohis]

I was excited - like most when WhatsApp announced the possibility to message through the a web browser. When I actually got round to try it, was disappointed that it was only possible through Google Chrome.

I took it upon myself to either find a way or create a way and something as simple as changing the useragent didn't help.

Finally stumbled upon something on reddit from user 'Anctar';

So I tried to make a workaround for those two missing features with a userscript. getUserMedia is already partially supported by Firefox and I simply had to make the method work without the prefix. For the Filesystem API I used a polyfill from GitHub. The result is that I can now use the webapp with Firefox and I didn't run into any problems as of yet. That being said I didn't do much except simple chatting.

tl;dr: Install this userscript and set the useragent with an addon of your choice to one matching Chrome's and you can use the client with Firefox.

Edit: Use at own risk. Don't blame me if something breaks or anything unforeseen should happen.

For those that need it breaking down, you will need the following;

1) Firefox browser (maybe others work, not sure)
2) Greasemonkey - Download here
3) An addon which changes useragent - or manually change it. - This you can research.

- Once you've downloaded Greasemonkey, go the page with the userscript mentioned above (from here)

- Copy Either the text from the link

- Thereafter go to add-ons and greasemonkey, click on New User Script (found on top, quite small text) and then a dialogue box will open. In the dialogue box at the bottom it will say 'Use script from clipboard'.

- Click save.

-Finally don't forget to change the userscript to chrome and you're good to go.

 

[Hovatek]

Thanks.. will check it out later today