[ale] hotmail on Linux

[Nick Ali]

Firefox can pretend to be IE...it needs a user agent extension to do it.

Check the link: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/useragentswitcher

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:00:52 -0400, Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> wrote:
> 
> Mozilla and Konqueror will both pretend to be IE if you set it up in
> preferences.  Don't know about Firefox.
> Dow
> 
> Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> > 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
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 :)
> >>
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