Mindstab.net » Microsoft Archives – Mindstab.net http://www.mindstab.net Various projects and musings Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:26:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Firefox and the new Hotmail http://www.mindstab.net/firefox-and-the-new-hotmail/ http://www.mindstab.net/firefox-and-the-new-hotmail/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:42:42 +0000 Dan Ballard http://www.mindstab.net/wordpress/?p=426 I don’t know who to be annoyed at actually. Microsoft just upgrade their hotmail interface, and hotmail is about the last MS product I use (that and the MSN server though I obviously don’t use their client). Anyways, suddenly hotmail wasn’t working for me which was a rather large pain. I searched around and found the solution.

In Firefox, goto “about:config” and put a filter of “vendor” in and hit enter. Change general.useragent.vendor from “Ubuntu” to “Firefox”.

Then it works fine. It’s annoying MS is still doing such browser specific tweeking and it breaks on something so small, but then again, it does seem that they at least support vanilla Firefox. I don’t know how important the vendor string is but if it’s breaking compatibility maybe Canoncial should leave it alone?

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