Ubuntu Studio 8.10 and hotmail

Hi,

I use hotmail as a web-base mailer (been using it since it came out way back when).. and now that i have moved to Ubuntu Studio 8.10.. i cannot reply to a message. I click reply.. and i get the message in a standard reply.. but i cannot type anything in the body of the message.. my notes are limited to the Subject field. In fact.. replying to a message doesn't even put the quoted response in the main body area.

Any ideas?

 

It's probably a browser problem than a OS one. what browser are you using?

 

I have the same problem, it is a hotmai/live mail fault. It used to work fine but since he last update, which microsoft said was just a new look, it has stopped working.

My solution was to start using gmail!

oh I use firefox 3.0.3 on linux mint

 

Hotmail won't work for me full stop, I too use GMail instead.
EMZ=]

 

blame bill gates?

 

Well, sometimes when I check my old hotmail account, it'll say something like "Your inbox cannot display properly. Please download the latest version of blah blah blah browsers."

But at the bottom right corner of the page, there'll be a sentence that says "Continue anyway" or something. And you can click on it to go into your mailbox.

 

A solution was posted in the openSUSE forums. I assume it will also work on Ubuntu, ...

It goes something like this:

to get

If you have the plugin User Agent Switcher installed, you may need to disable it.

In the case of Ubuntu, I suspect you change "UBUNTU" to "Firefox" (or something like that)

 

Microsoft has broken Hotmail for Linux users. Please try using User Agent Switcher to circumvent this.

 

That's just very, very low. Why would they even do that?

 

Isn't linux meant to be taking a huge chunk of microsoft's profits due to being installed on about 30% of netbooks?
Think that is a good enough reason for them.

And I use to get the browser not supported message but I fixed that. The problem I have is when I go to reply or just even type a new message, I cannot type anything into the message box.
I can do everything else except type an e-mail.

Found a fix on the ubuntu forums and it works!

1. Download User Agent Switcher
2. In Firefox, go to Tools->User Agent Switcher->Options->Options...
3. Click User Agents on the Left, then click the Add button.
4. Description: "Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 (Windows XP)"
5. User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
6. Click OK, and OK again.
7. User Agents are listed under Tool->User Agent Switcher

then i selected Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 (Windows XP) and logged into hotmail.. now i can write in the message body

 

Oh, that reminds me. There's an addon for firefox that lets the webpage emulate an IE environment. I used that once.

 

I think it's called IE Tab?
EMZ=P

 

"IE Tab is not available for Linux"
Got that message off the firefox site and IE render is no good.

Think agent switcher is the best solution.

 

i think gmail is the best solution. It really doesnt take that long to change from one email to another. (im in the transition phase right now and i might get an important email to my hotmail account once a month, the rest is junk)

Another thing, anyone who has been using hotmail since this "new look" came out, have you noticed the junk email filter doesnt seem to work anymore? I keep getting emails that are identical to each other trying to scam me (they are from different senders) appearing in my inbox. Before the new look these would go into the junk most of the time. I suspect MS released more than a new look, im thinking they released an "anti-linux" hotmail version.

 

On the openSUSE forums, I read of a case where for one user, using "firefox" as the string for the "general.useragent.vendor" entry didn't work for them, but leaving that field blank did work.

 

+1 gmail

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