Ubuntu fix for Hotmail

yashiro

yashiro

yashiro

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In the Firefox address bar, enter in:
Code: 
about:config

open about:config in the address bar. Search the list for general.useragent.
Change whatever values you have set to the following:
Code: 
general.useragent.extra.firefox  Firefox/3.0.3
general.useragent.vendor  Firefox
 
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The 'new' hotmail scans your browsers agent strings when you log in.

If you're not recognized as Firefox, Safari, Internet Exploder it just fails to work. You can sometimes read mails but you can never send any or edit etc.

Basically their code is poor and their browser specific workarounds are based on the wrong strings.
 
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yashiro said:
The 'new' hotmail scans your browsers agent strings when you log in.

If you're not recognized as Firefox, Safari, Internet Exploder it just fails to work. You can sometimes read mails but you can never send any or edit etc.

Basically their code is **** and their browser specific workarounds are based on the wrong strings.
Click to expand...

Its not that bad, it just doesn't use all its functionality.
Works fine for me. Actually prefer it being simple for the time being.
 
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