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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. Opera won a lawsuit about this kind of thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Remember when MS skewed pages being viewed by Opera, but if you told Opera to identify as IE, they'd work just fine? Opera won their lawsuit against MS for that. Perhaps another lawsuit should be in the works.