[ale] hotmail on Linux

[Tom & JaVonn]

Vernard:

Well, I see her Mepis uses:

Mozilla 1.5
Konqueror 3.1.3

so I see little room for upgrade.  I'll try other browsers just out of curiosity.

Is it possible for Mozilla / Firefox to identify themselves as IE (the way Opera does) ???

Tom
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On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 13:21:44 -0400
Vernard Martin <vernard at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> > Having replaced unbootable WinME with Linux on someone's laptop, she's quite happy EXCEPT:
> > 
> >   when using hotmail, everything looks fine until REPLYING or FORWARDING, when the HTML markup is displayed as text, and the receiver sees it all ( like, every line from the original begins with &gt. )
> > 
> > Searching google and slashdot showed plenty of complaints about hotmail, but I found no solution to this.
> 
> Obviously, it is the web browser she is using. I would recommend trying 
> a few others to see if they work. Konqueror from KDE, Galeon from GNOME, 
> Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.8 and Opera. One of those is bound to work correctly.
> 
> I personally just would probably ditch hotmail but I'm sure that isn't a 
> reasonable solution :)
> 
> Vernard
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