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The iCloud web site sniffs the user-agent string to decide whether to enable features. Accessing with a Linux Firefox user-agent string does not work (clicks are ignored). Using an extension to pretend to be Windows Firefox allows everything to work well.
Apple's System requirements for iCloud mention only "PC / Microsoft Windows 10" as a supported OS for non-Apple hardware, requiring "Microsoft Edge, Firefox 45 or later, or Google Chrome 54 or later" for desktop mode.
This user agent sniffing seems to cause confusion, because, of course, it should mostly not matter which platform Firefox is running on, resulting in help requests such as On touchscreen computers, icloud.com will not work with mouse or trackpad, have to use touchscreen. (I could not reproduce the workaround as reported; the Linux computer I first stumbled upon the issue with indeed has a touch screen, but even that did not work.)
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David Haguenauer
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