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Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0

Posted by kdawson on from the whoa-there-big-feller dept.

An anonymous reader tips a column up at freesoftwaremagazine.com in which the writer discovers that the latest UI enhancements that Hotmail has recently introduced don't work with Firefox 2.0 under Linux. The writer concludes that the webmail interface has been artificially limited by basic user-agent sniffing. The solution is simple enough — spoofing the User Agent that Firefox reports.

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  1. You geeks... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just use IE for Linux like anybody else, ok? You bloody geeks..

    1. Re:You geeks... by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Damn it Jim I'm a nerd, not a geek!

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  2. Damn whiners by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Another article by another clueless user. He could have just used Internet Explorer for Linux.

    Sheesh.

    1. Re:Damn whiners by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 1, Funny

      ...and a big "WHOOOOOSH!" to the fella who modded that "flamebait" within seconds of its posting. I know it's early, fellas, but can't you at least parse the whole post?

    2. Re:Damn whiners by mweather · · Score: 2, Funny

      You joke, but it does work just fine in IE under wine.

  3. Hotmail, huh? by blackbirdwork · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who uses hotmail anyway?

  4. Re:This seems desperate... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why assume it's malicious, when this sort of issue is well known to anyone who's ever tried to support multiple browsers through UA sniffing? Oh, there you go again, trying to ruin our Microsoft-bashing funfest with stupid things like "logic" and "reason". Sheesh. You must be new here.
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  5. Re:again with the user agent excludes? by hool5400 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there was a browser called Oprah, i think it would be bloatware.

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  6. Re:This seems desperate... by skyriser2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
    - Robert J. Hanlon

  7. Re:Opera won a lawsuit about this kind of thing by RailGunner · · Score: 2, Funny

    Opera also released a highly entertaining "Swedish Chef" version of Opera that would seriously screw up the msn.com homepage and intentionally insert "bork bork bork" on the page.

    More on the Opera version...

  8. Re:Opera won a lawsuit about this kind of thing by gid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kinda like this? http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/

  9. Who uses Hotmail with Firefox on Linux? by Incster · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am surprised that anyone noticed.

  10. Re:Kind of Misleading by ultranova · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is interesting and all, but as others have said... Why use HotMail at all? This is like saying "NEWSFLASH: Vista sucks!" Yes, and so? There are BETTER alternatives.

    Hotmail is great for throwaway e-mail addresses to be used in registration forms which require them. Create a new address, give it in the form, answer the confirmation e-mail, and never use the address again. The inevitable flood of spam isn't going to make any difference to Hotmail, considering the amount it already gets.

    Hotmail is like a public toilet: it smells bad, has shady characters hanging around, and is not a place you'd want to spend any more time than neccessary in, but it's good to have when you need a place to dispose of crap.

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