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Originally Posted by 6tr6tr
You can't. They don't allow POP for non-paying users.
I've gotten the new hotmail to work (not well, but it does work) in Opera and Firefox but only by doing this:
* In Firefox, go to about:config and change UserAgent from "SUSE" to Firefox.
* In Opera, go to "Manage Site Preferences" under content, and add one for "live.com" and under the Network tab, choose "Identify as Firefox"
It will work. Not perfectly (and when doing a new message, you'll get the "thinking" cursor forever, you MUST hit the "X" stop button to stop the browser loading or you can't type in a message), but if it's necessary, you can do it.
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Thanks for that information 6tr6tr, it works perfectly for me. Opera was OK in the interim, but it does some very odd things with fonts ö_Ö.
I really don't think it was a malicious thing that Microsoft did to stop *nix users as my Windows version of Firefox works perfectly from my Vista partition.
(did I REALLY just defend Microsoft there? I must be coming down with something nasty!
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In fact it seeing as it was the string "SUSE" that caused the problem, maybe we should be looking elsewhere, maybe Linux distros need to simply keep it as the default rather than changing it?
I'm not sure what the Windows version of Firefox has in it's settings, but it would be interesting to find out.
Just trying to be level headed about the problem
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