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Ionut
if (MatchPattern(url.host(), "*.mail.live.com")) {
if (mimic_safari_user_agent.empty())
BuildUserAgent(true, &mimic_safari_user_agent);
return mimic_safari_user_agent;
}
January 28, 2009
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Aman, ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ, Vishwajith and 21 other people liked this
Chrome "fixes" Hotmail issues by spoofing Safari's user-agent: http://codereview.chromium.org/19025
- Ionut
:-)
- John Mueller
I wish that my iPhone could mimic safari so that people would stop sending me to their crappy mobile sites.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, there's a hack that uses Privoxy - check comment #24 at http://i.tuaw.com/2009... (I don't have an iphone so I don't know if it really works :-))
- John Mueller
Normally you think of web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter.
- Matt Cutts
The fix was included in the latest Chrome update: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009... "Windows Live Hotmail now works. While the Hotmail team works on a proper fix, we're deploying a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with mail.live.com."
- Ionut
Omar, it's true that I do consider a web service easier to update than client-side software. Google runs web services with many users and servers too and we launch changes weekly or faster. At any rate, it's great to know that Hotmail's next service release will address this issue--thanks for mentioning that.
- Matt Cutts