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Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the also-dalmations-have-spots dept.

babooo404 writes "Last week, Walmart launched their online video download service. Immediately there were posts that the service did not work with the Firefox or Safari browsers. There was a collective, "WTF" when this happened as this is 2007, not 1997. Now it appears that reports are out that Walmart has completely turned off the ability to get into the application at all by Firefox, Safari or any other browser it does not like."

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  1. WTF? by DeeZee · · Score: 5, Funny

    And the internets was all like "double-you tee eff, mate?"

    1. Re:WTF? by rsborg · · Score: 4, Funny

      And the internets was all like "double-you tee eff, mate?"
      Hokay...
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    2. Re:WTF? by jackharrer · · Score: 3, Funny

      I can hear a shot... And foot being hit by a bullet...

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    3. Re:WTF? by Fyre2012 · · Score: 5, Funny

      We're sorry, your operating system is incompatible. To provide the best download experience, we can no longer support Windows 98, ME or NT. Please visit again after you upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP
      I'm using OS X and FF on my MacBook Pro, and apparently I need to upgrade to XP.
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    4. Re:WTF? by misleb · · Score: 3, Funny

      Do you want to become South Korea?


      Whoa! Is that possible? Can I actually BECOME South Korea? Can change back to myself if I don't like it?

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    5. Re:WTF? by Cobralisk · · Score: 4, Funny

      And what would happen to your seoul?

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  2. Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari by Ridayah · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean come on, doesn't everyone know that the internet is run on Windows software and IE is the only REAL web browser! Anyone who uses anything else MUST be a hacker trying to break their site.

    1. Re:Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Funny

      A month ago, the same client comes back crying that something broke the feature in the new Firefox 2.0. The irony.
      Hopefully, you charged him an arm and a leg to tweak the code so it would work (I mean, remove the "crash if != IE" test)????
    2. Re:Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari by nicomen · · Score: 2, Funny

      Huh, people still run MSIE?

      The 90's called, they want their browser back!

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    3. Re:Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari by LouisZepher · · Score: 2, Funny

      They also asked that you have their joke dry-cleaned before returning them as well...

  3. what do you expect? by Peter+La+Casse · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're not called the Evil Store Of Death for nothing.

  4. Hrmph. Serves them right. by BrianRaker · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess they just lost the chance in getting my money.

    Well, I take that back, they never had a chance at getting my money.

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  5. they are doing a favor by KH · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think of this as a favor on Walmart's side. They only want to suck money out of sackers who use IE. They spared FF/Safari users from their greed, so to say...

    How many of FF/Safari users out there sincerely want to buy movies from Walmart? I don't even live in the States, so I wouldn't even try.

  6. even if we cannot access it by SilentGhost · · Score: 5, Funny

    we can always /. it

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  7. will Wal-Mart customers go for this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do trailer parks even have broadband?

  8. Re:Stuffing the Server Logs with Visits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Go to google. Search for "buy dvd."
    Find the walmart adwords ad.
    Click it.
    Walmart sends money to google.
    You go to the beta entrance to walmart downloads.
    Click it.
    Start over.

  9. Re:it's not just the video service by nomadic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Walmart employees get benefits?

  10. Re:The old alliance parter program by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like Wall Mart got the Microsoft Kool-Aid.
    Well, let's hope they drink it.
  11. Re:Seems reasonable to me by Fortyseven · · Score: 3, Funny

    Realistically, who shuts down Firefox to load a page in IE?

    In the latest XP Service Pack they added the ability to launch multiple processes, so you can have Firefox and IE going at the same time. I even tried loading calc.exe once while doing that, and it ran all three at once just fine.

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  12. Re:It's their business. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Firefox users are by definition people who try something new

    Um, no... Firefox users are by definition people who use Firefox.
  13. Lenovo-compatible PC by budgenator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lenovo-compatible PC"? What the FUCK? yes our DRM software require all of the current ChiCom backdoors to insure user compliance with our EULA's by means of user monitoring.

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  14. Misspelled DRM... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny
    We're sorry, your operating system is incompatible. To provide the best download experience, we can no longer support Windows 98, ME or NT.

    They misspelled "DRM protection".

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  15. How to shoot yourself in the foot, twice... by SnowDog74 · · Score: 4, Funny


    1. Wal-Mart fears they will lose customers to Apple.
    2. Wal-Mart launches internet distribution.
    3. Wal-Mart removes Safari and Firefox support, thus ensuring they WILL lose customers to Apple.
    4. PROFIT! err... Oh, snap!

  16. Text only browsers by rishistar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nothing here in Lynx.

    Mind you, the video plug-in for lynx sucks anyway.

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