Hotmail not fully functional anymore

Write down about:config at the place you would write URLs. Then, filter for general.useragent.vendor and change it from Ubuntu to Firefox.

Hope I helped!!

Your question #50967 on Ubuntu changed:I have no idea what you are talking about. I had to switch to yahoo mail.
Hotmail used to work fine until fire fox was upgraded then i couldnt go
back.
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/50967
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Daniel Aguirre proposed the following answer:
> Write down about:config at the place you would write URLs. Then, filter
> for general.useragent.vendor and change it from Ubuntu to Firefox.
>
> Hope I helped!!
>

This is something Microsoft is reportedly doing deliberately. Do the following:

- In the address bar, enter about:config
- Click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button
- In the Filter box, enter 'general.useragent.vendor'
- Double-click the line starting with 'general.useragent.vendor'
- In the box that appears, clear out whatever's there and enter 'Firefox'
- Click OK
- Close all Firefox windows (yes, all of them) and try to access Hotmail again

I did that, nothing changed, I went back, and in the box I had previously changed appeared UBuntu once again. I changed again and went as far as restarting , back to same thing. I also gave feedback to hotmail client as well. This email has worked for as long as Ive used UBUNTU, about 1yr. no problems.

What addon switcher did you install? Can you also please try the steps I gave again, but this time before restarting visit this page and copy the blue line under "Your browser version": http://helpdesk.unb.ca/helpDesk/utils/yourip.cgi

After that, save the line somewhere and restart Firefox, then go back to that page again and copy the same line. Please post here with both lines, as well as exactly what addon switcher you installed.

When you edit the general.useragent.vendor line to Firefox, and then restart it doesn't work, right?
But, at the moment of editing, without restarting, does hotmail work?

If this is the case you'll need to go to the file /etc/firefox-3.0/pref.js (or something similar) and there copy the line of general.useragent.vendor (already edited and while firefox is not on).

I tried the fix suggested by joel goguen and it worked so far.

thanks joel

No it did not work, same result, recieve but not able to send. Another
thing I had to give up using linux. I had to switch to yahoo mail for
web email.
> Your question #50967 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/50967
>
> Status: Needs information => Answered
>
> Daniel Aguirre proposed the following answer:
> When you edit the general.useragent.vendor line to Firefox, and then restart it doesn't work, right?
> But, at the moment of editing, without restarting, does hotmail work?
>
> If this is the case you'll need to go to the file
> /etc/firefox-3.0/pref.js (or something similar) and there copy the line
> of general.useragent.vendor (already edited and while firefox is not
> on).
>

Thanks Guillermo Belli, that solved my question.

Thankyou for the responses, since I had a yahoo acct as well, it was easiest to transfer all email to that. I did follow thru with the help hints but no success. I like to have a webmail address when i travel, my home address doesnt always work. thanks again.