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Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0
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.
GMail's interface update a month or so back randomly crashes Firefox 2.0 on Windows whenever you click one of the left-hand links or "Send." The 3.0 beta doesn't have this problem, and you can specify "ui=1" in the URL to use the old interface, but it's worth mentioning.
Your brain is not a computer.
I was disgusted to find out that to "keep" your alumni email account, you have to sign up for a new account that is through hotmail. This was after about a decade of allowing the alumni to freely use (no alumni fee) their old email addresses (as long as they kept the account tidy). I can understand them wanting to get away from too much freebie stuff, but going to hotmail (and charging for it) was just... terrible. As a result, I'm not going to be using that service at all. I had converted to gmail a short time prior to that anyway... so now let's just see when gmail decides to start charging. =[