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.

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Re:Kind of Misleading

[Blakey Rat]

Except Hotmail *does* work, just one little feature doesn't. It also doesn't work in Outlook Web Access. The part that nobody's discussing is: does this not work because Microsoft hates you and wants you to die, or does it not work because Firefox lacks the capability to make it work?

There are a million JS differences between browsers, some big and some tiny, and Mozilla seems to often go out of its way specifically to be incompatible with IE and/or bullheadedly refuse to change or add anything to be more compatible with IE. It's possible, even likely, that the reason Hotmail doesn't have this feature on FF is because in FF it doesn't work.