firefox

[Teza]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I was using 8.04 only a few minits ago and i had the same problem (i have ubuntu 8.10 now), With hotmail, To get the latest features with hotmail it says i need to update to firefox 3.0. and i do have 3.0.3. why is it still doing this. even after a ubuntu update?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

This is a Microsoft bug as far as I know. They are checking your browser ID and they are still looking for Firefox 2. Firefox 3 (for Microsoft) is older than Firefox 2. It's a bug. It is possible to switch off browser ID, but that's a bit tricky.

If you look for an alternative, opera (opera.com) is a great browser and hotmail pops up without this annoying "update request".

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this is a bug of hotmail. complain with them. we properly say:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3

thats what we tell them. what they make up based on that is a bug on their side.