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Claude Hopper - 03 Jul 2008 15:33 GMT
Why is Microsoft site Windows Live Hotmail telling me I need to upgrade
my browser when I have Firefox 3.0-1.2  running on OpenSuSE 11.0?

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo - 03 Jul 2008 17:25 GMT
> Why is Microsoft site Windows Live Hotmail telling me I need to upgrade
> my browser when I have Firefox 3.0-1.2  running on OpenSuSE 11.0?

the upgrade is probably to Firefox 2.0.0.15.  They haven't
gotten around to FF3 yet

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Philip Chee - 04 Jul 2008 05:59 GMT
>> Why is Microsoft site Windows Live Hotmail telling me I need to upgrade
>> my browser when I have Firefox 3.0-1.2  running on OpenSuSE 11.0?
>
> the upgrade is probably to Firefox 2.0.0.15.  They haven't
> gotten around to FF3 yet

In microsoft speak "upgrade" means IE7.

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Dave - 04 Jul 2008 20:35 GMT
> Why is Microsoft site Windows Live Hotmail telling me I need to upgrade
> my browser when I have Firefox 3.0-1.2  running on OpenSuSE 11.0?

There is an addon for Firefox that spoofs the user agent. Force it to
appear like IE when accessing the M$ site.
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo - 04 Jul 2008 21:02 GMT
>> Why is Microsoft site Windows Live Hotmail telling me I need to upgrade
>> my browser when I have Firefox 3.0-1.2  running on OpenSuSE 11.0?
>
> There is an addon for Firefox that spoofs the user agent. Force it to
> appear like IE when accessing the M$ site.

its the user agent switcher:
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/

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Claude Hopper - 05 Jul 2008 12:40 GMT
>> Why is Microsoft site Windows Live Hotmail telling me I need to
>> upgrade my browser when I have Firefox 3.0-1.2  running on OpenSuSE 11.0?
>
> There is an addon for Firefox that spoofs the user agent. Force it to
> appear like IE when accessing the M$ site.

So why are they asking to upgrade Firefox too?

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