Can not compose/edit message in hotmail

[drkenb]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

After getting the message for weeks that I need to upgrade my Firefox (although I have the most recent vers installed), and having the system work, it stopped working today. I can not edit a message, thus can not compose a message.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
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_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

This is a known issue. Nothing changed in Ubuntu, Microsoft changed some things on their server side.

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Microsoft_breaks_Hotmail_for_Linux_users
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Hotmail_does_worknbadlynwith_Linux

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

See the stories above, maybe a solution there exists. But nothing is broken in Ubuntu and it's perfectly capable of accomplishing the same tasks as before - many suspect foul play is at hand here as hotmail tried to deliberately break it.

Maybe try contacting <email address hidden>, I don't know. Chances are they'll just tell you that they only support Internet Explorer under Windows only.