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Hotmail Full Version Incompatible With Firefox 3

Posted by kdawson on from the smells-like-a-varmint dept.

An anonymous reader notes that Hotmail's full version doesn't work with Firefox 3. Users get the following message when they try to log in: You are temporarily on the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail due to an error encountered during login. Before trying again, please clear your cache and cookies. (Clearing cache and cookies doesn't fix it.) At least 8 other bug reports have been duped to this one. The fault apparently lies with the Hotmail site, not Mozilla — maintainer Dave Garrett assigned the bug to Tech Evangelism, explaining: "I'll... move this over to TE, as my guess is this [is] the site's fault (just bad user agent sniffing?)."

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  1. The cake was a lie. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    FP.

    1. Re:The cake was a lie. by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 5, Funny

      MS is MS, they are the collective, resistance is futile.

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      What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
  2. Re:I'm not at all surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks CaptainObvious.

  3. Re:It works in Opera :-) by TheSeer2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shush. Stop getting in the way of the MS bashing.

  4. Re:Hotmail incompatible with me.... by introspekt.i · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the bigger question for the film is:

    "Why are FireFox users using Hotmail?"

    I guess you could be a legacy user from way back when..buuuuuuuut...eventually you have to stop using Geocities.

  5. Re:Hotmail incompatible with me.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet. He also has AlGorithm named after him, so he is a programmer too.

  6. Re:Not so friendly to non-MS browsers. by $random_var · · Score: 2, Funny

    WebCT was put on earth by aliens who are set to destroy us by slowly driving us insane. What other explanation is there?

  7. Well... by thegnu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you still quoting that distortion of Al's words?

    In Soviet Russia, Al Gore quotes YOU!

    And the Internet invented AL GORE!

    And you reply to ME!

    And I downmod YOU!

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    Please stop stalking me, bro.
  8. Re:Hotmail incompatible with me.... by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess you could be a legacy user from way back when... Yeah, except that even way back when, hotmail was lame.
  9. Re:I'm not at all surprised by RealGrouchy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not surprising? Last I checked, Google is the #1 search engine, but you could still access it 100% with IE.

    This is like if GM was the primary sponsor for Six Flags amusement parks, and the parking attendants direct you to park at the far end of the parking lot because you drive a Toyota, but they don't explicitly say that they do so, and even though there's no technical reason why your car can't park in the more convenient spots.

    - RG>

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    Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
  10. Re:Confused by DamonHD · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, you'll be thinking of hotmale.com.

    Boy, I wish I'd registered that way back when, to make my megabucks!

    Rgds

    Damon

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