I have had this problem for weeks. I finally found this on the Firefox forum today.
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This solution for Ubuntu users works fine for me.
Believe it or not. It is just that Firefox on Ubuntu Linux uses 'Ubuntu' as vendor string and not 'Firefox'. So, people as Hotmail: Just also recognize Firefox if the vendor string is not equal to Firefox. It would be much easier if providers such as Hotmail would just rely on plain HTML rather than testing against zillions of agent strings.
So here is the solution for Ubuntu:
(taken from
Linux users are blocked from using hotmail through Firefox)
Linux users are blocked from using hotmail through Firefox
Tested with Ubuntu 8.0.10 and Firefox 3.0.4. Apparently, Microsoft does not like strange browsers roaming about.
The solution was simple:
1. In Firefox URL address bar enter about:config
2. Press Enter
3. Confirm that you will not be naughty
4. Locate the entry general.useragent.vendor
5. Double click on it and change it to Firefox (in my case the original value was Ubuntu as Ubuntu issues and maintains Firefox releases/updates to Ubuntu users).
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I have SUSE, not Ubuntu but I did it and it works. Problem solved. Seems IN THIS CASE it is NOT a Microsloth screwing with us issue at all (although it would not surprise me)