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.

Comments

Re:This seems desperate...

[nagora]

I have to wonder how in the world they thought this wasn't going to come out? Or they just didn't care?

It's a tough call: most of their staff are so dumb that they might have thought they could get away with it, but at the same time the management really don't care. Let's say "both" and leave it at that.

TWW

Just thought I'd point out

[gazbo]

For the benefit of the person who wrote the article:

Yes, the MS employee responding sounded clueless - almost as if he's some cheap as shit outsourced grunt reeling stock answers from a knowledge base.

You, however, sound like a mildly retarded cunt. Seriously, you sound like an absolute cunt.

Nope.

[Macthorpe]

I use OWA all the time Firefox and Opera and it renders fine.

I don't honestly know why you people feel the need to lie about this stuff. Microsoft does plenty of stupid shit without you inventing it.

Re:Past 30+ years, Microsoft a selfish brat

[pandrijeczko]

I use a lot of Open Source software, like Linux and Mac OS X

Erm, last time I looked, Mac OS X wasn't Open Source. Apple and "your mate" Steve Jobs may be able to employ hordes of marketing people to give him a more friendly face than Gates or Ballmer, but Apple are still are a corporation that wants to make as much money as possible from the products they sell and, where possible, continue to lock you, the user, into their way of doing things - hence the DRM lock-in of iPod and iTunes and the mobile vendor lock-in of iPhone.