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.

You geeks...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just use IE for Linux like anybody else, ok? You bloody geeks..

Damn whiners

[Ethanol-fueled]

...Another article by another clueless user. He could have just used Internet Explorer for Linux.

Sheesh.

Re:Damn whiners

[Ethanol-fueled]

...and a big "WHOOOOOSH!" to the fella who modded that "flamebait" within seconds of its posting. I know it's early, fellas, but can't you at least parse the whole post?

Hotmail, huh?

[blackbirdwork]

Who uses hotmail anyway?

Re:Damn whiners

[mweather]

You joke, but it does work just fine in IE under wine.

Re:You geeks...

[sm62704]

Damn it Jim I'm a nerd, not a geek! [wikipedia.org]

-mcgrew

Re:This seems desperate...

[morgan_greywolf]

Why assume it's malicious, when this sort of issue is well known to anyone who's ever tried to support multiple browsers through UA sniffing?

Oh, there you go again, trying to ruin our Microsoft-bashing funfest with stupid things like "logic" and "reason". Sheesh. You must be new here.

Re:again with the user agent excludes?

[hool5400]

If there was a browser called Oprah, i think it would be bloatware.

Re:This seems desperate...

[skyriser2]

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
- Robert J. Hanlon

Re:Opera won a lawsuit about this kind of thing

[RailGunner]

Opera also released a highly entertaining "Swedish Chef" version of Opera that would seriously screw up the msn.com homepage and intentionally insert "bork bork bork" on the page.

More on the Opera version... [wikipedia.org]

Re:Opera won a lawsuit about this kind of thing

[gid]

Kinda like this? http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/ [google.com]

Who uses Hotmail with Firefox on Linux?

[Incster]

I am surprised that anyone noticed.

Re:Kind of Misleading

[ultranova]

This is interesting and all, but as others have said... Why use HotMail at all? This is like saying "NEWSFLASH: Vista sucks!" Yes, and so? There are BETTER alternatives.

Hotmail is great for throwaway e-mail addresses to be used in registration forms which require them. Create a new address, give it in the form, answer the confirmation e-mail, and never use the address again. The inevitable flood of spam isn't going to make any difference to Hotmail, considering the amount it already gets.

Hotmail is like a public toilet: it smells bad, has shady characters hanging around, and is not a place you'd want to spend any more time than neccessary in, but it's good to have when you need a place to dispose of crap.