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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?
November 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Oh, it’s so good to find out that this doesn’t just happen to me. Who would you have to be annoyed at? Microsoft, of course!
It’s ridiculous, I couldn’t send an e-mail because I don’t use Windows. Their business philosophies get more and more twisted every day. Their insanely restricted service doesn’t support POP or IMAP, and they don’t redirect incoming e-mail to non-Live accounts.
It’s great to be on the Linux/GNU/FOSS side, I wish more people would realize that. (Not that Gmail is FOSS, of course, but they do provide a more than decent quality service.)
I’ll see if the about:config tweak works for me.
Yay, it worked!
Thanks a lot, man.
I don’t think the vendor string is sooooo important, but it probably is, for the MS guys.
Take care.