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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.

  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. Who uses Hotmail with Firefox on Linux? by Incster · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am surprised that anyone noticed.