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Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari
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."
Which is why I use a user-agent that says "I am not a Googlebot/2.1". But change it to IE or something else if websites don't like it.
I wank in the shower.
HP Video Merchant
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.
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This would be funny, if it wasn't true. This was coming 1:1 from the mouth of one of my big clients (and otherwise a smart fella), just 10 months ago.
I would explain in a long tirade how Firefox is picking up and so on and so on. He'd just say "Nah, don't spend a second testing in Firefox, they'll have to use a REAL browser
Of course, I was secretly testing in other browsers for the hell of it, since I'm your typical thickheaded geek.
A month ago, the same client comes back crying that something broke the feature in the new Firefox 2.0. The irony.
(Also, turned out the issue was from a tweak HE made, after reverting it was ok.)
I get (after a few refreshes) (rendered as text from the server) an HTML page that reads: "The Wal-Mart Video Downloads store is currently unavailable due to temporary site maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Either they're fixing it or are slashdotted?
As much as I hate Walmart, they did sell the Linspire systems; I think this is laziness more than intention.
Returned Peace Corps IT Volunteer
Not that I shop at Walmart because I'm one of those "support small business" types. Has anyone else with Firefox, Safari, Opera and other browsers tried going to the Walmart site? Yes, the Walmart site works fine in Firefox. It's their music download site that doesn't work. Try this: go to walmart.com, click on the "Entertainment" menu, select "Music", then click the big gray "Music Downloads" button. That's when you get the following message: We notice you're not using Internet Explorer. To continue, please visit this page using Internet Explorer 6.0 or later. I'm on Vista Ultimate with Firefox 2.0.0.1. It works fine when I use IE7 of course.
Carpe Cerevisi - Seize the Beer
This is the comment I received from wal-mart when i asked why firefox isn't supported. Thank you for contacting us at mediadownloads.walmart.com. Your comments and questions are very important to us as we strive to meet your needs. Thank you for taking the time and writing to us that the Walmart video download site is not compatible with the Firefox browser. I apologize for the inconvenience caused. We have forwarded your feedback to our Research and Development team which is already working in this regard. I once again thank you for your valuable feedback which will help us improve our services. Sincerely, Suzanna Customer Service at WalMart.com
Will never buy another piece of recorded media until the greedy bastards at the RIAA treat the artists fair and leave th
It's not extortion... Small independent businesses in rural and outlying areas don't have the buying power and shipping infrastructure that these multinational mega corps have. In other words, because Wal Mart buys 100,000 hammers in a year they get them for $5 a piece and only ya $.25 to have them shipped. The mom and pop store in Podunk, Nowhere (BFE) might only buy 100 hammers a year. Because they dont get a bulk rate, they have to pay $7 per hammer, and $.75 for shipping per hammer.
This is just an example but it goes to show that with massive pockets comes distribution and an ability to get bulk rates.
Libertas in infinitum