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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 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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    3. 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.

  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. 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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  8. 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!

  9. 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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