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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?)."

6 of 258 comments (clear)

  1. Change the User Agent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There are add-ons for Mozilla that allow you to change the user-agent.

    (Have you tried sending IE7 as the user-agent?)

  2. This isn't particularly new by Cathoderoytube · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This may not exactly be on the topic, but I've noticed every Microsoft run website that I try to access with Firefox gives me trouble, even with previous versions of Firefox. The Xbox live site never recognizes passwords the first time when they're inputted with Firefox. I tried accessing the same sites with Internet Explorer and lowe and behold the passwords work properly every time. I try not to get into that mindset that the Microsoft people are actually petty enough to pull stunts like that, but from my own experience and reading stories like this it starts to get difficult.

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  3. Curious demographic by pembo13 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am somewhat curious about the type of person that uses Firefox 3 but has a Hotmail (note not Passport) account that they actually check.

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  4. This tactic has worked in the past... by Rinkhals · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why on earth would microsoft abandon it now?

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  5. Re:Well... by WiFiBro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lol you lost a modpoint then by replying :P.

  6. Re:Hotmail incompatible with me.... by kv9 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    *waves to butthurt Vista using mods on crack*

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