firefox and user agent switcher does the trick for now. they might update once word spreads. IE8 user agent string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)", and firefox's user agent switcher addon Firefox User Agent Switcher
Oh no, my super-awesome browser lets me access all my friendface and facepages and all those other vanity flyers that control my nonexistent social life, but that is being threatened by a generic marketing campaign that simply makes use of targeted advertising by detecting the user agent of major competitors and is in no way aimed at one particular competitor! Whatever will I do?
Seriously, what the fuck are you on? As Anon #3 rightly said, Firefox doing this would be an "awesome" thing and "lol, Micro$uck have no chance now!!!!!!!!!!!".
As a user who gets nothing more than a "that browser" message, I originally thought you were taking the piss. Then I realised you're just an asshat. This is actually a fairly good advertising campaign, and you can't say it didn't work. If anything else, most of you switched to IE8 temporarily to see the result. That counts.
Hmm, who said they tried w/ IE8? I'm not trying to sound elitist or anything, but I don't run Windows, so whatever.
When sites say they only support Firefox, there is usually a good reason, such as the hacks to make it work in IE are too great. There is no technical reason that that site will only work w/ IE8, as demonstrated by all the people getting in w/ User Agent switching. And actually, when was the last time you've been to a site that said it was FF only? Pretty much never.
Anyways, I agree that MS is wasting their time w/ this and nobody is going to switch browsers for this.
user agent switching (there's a firefox plugin for it) will get you round the restriction...
ReplyDeleteI bet it goes deeper than user-agents. Probably a rendering bug that Microsoft purposely left in IE8.
ReplyDeleteBut if Firefox did this it would be considered "cool" and "innovative".
ReplyDeleteAnonymous #3: Mozilla would _never_ do this.
ReplyDeletefirefox and user agent switcher does the trick for now. they might update once word spreads. IE8 user agent string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)", and firefox's user agent switcher addon Firefox User Agent Switcher
ReplyDeletehmm... so why is the link showing a different message where there is nothing about firefox
ReplyDeleteIn Chrome it makes mention of 'tarnished chrome' instead.
ReplyDeleteSafari is "Boring Safari"
ReplyDeletejust to be fair, MS also derides viewing the page in IE7...
ReplyDeleteWow, even viewing the page in IE8 the page says I'm using IE7. Good job MS.
ReplyDeleteFirefox 3.5 (Shiretoko) is just "that browser".
ReplyDeleteI would give IE8 a go, but it won't work on Linux.
ReplyDeleteOh no, my super-awesome browser lets me access all my friendface and facepages and all those other vanity flyers that control my nonexistent social life, but that is being threatened by a generic marketing campaign that simply makes use of targeted advertising by detecting the user agent of major competitors and is in no way aimed at one particular competitor! Whatever will I do?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, what the fuck are you on? As Anon #3 rightly said, Firefox doing this would be an "awesome" thing and "lol, Micro$uck have no chance now!!!!!!!!!!!".
As a user who gets nothing more than a "that browser" message, I originally thought you were taking the piss. Then I realised you're just an asshat. This is actually a fairly good advertising campaign, and you can't say it didn't work. If anything else, most of you switched to IE8 temporarily to see the result. That counts.
Hmm, who said they tried w/ IE8? I'm not trying to sound elitist or anything, but I don't run Windows, so whatever.
ReplyDeleteWhen sites say they only support Firefox, there is usually a good reason, such as the hacks to make it work in IE are too great. There is no technical reason that that site will only work w/ IE8, as demonstrated by all the people getting in w/ User Agent switching. And actually, when was the last time you've been to a site that said it was FF only? Pretty much never.
Anyways, I agree that MS is wasting their time w/ this and nobody is going to switch browsers for this.
When in doubt (or in desperation), always offer someone money and you'll get what you want.
ReplyDeleteOpera is referred to as "that browser" too.
ReplyDeleteIronically, the browser people *should* be ditching, IE7, is refered to as "Windows Internet Explorer 7" and there is no such suggestion!
They obviously realise the public won't go for their broken, slow browser. Why else would they be trying to bribe us? Tossers...
Anon: I tried to download IE8 but i got this message:
ReplyDelete"We are sorry, but your Operating System is not supported by the ninemsn Optimised version of Internet Explorer 8."
Do you think firefox would make a version that would run on OS X? How can i switch now????
Microsoft is hoping that by typing a pork chop around its neck, it can get the dog to play? Better be a damn good pork chop...
ReplyDeleteuhm, double standard?
ReplyDeleteGo to http://getfirefox.com in IE and it says "Using Internet Explorer is So 2006"
So why not go after Mozilla for that first?
@ricky
ReplyDeleteit says that with firefox too
I hope so badly for someone with Firefox + User Agent Switcher to win this! (and yes, it works, just tested it. The clues are now displayed.)
ReplyDeletebtw: Firefox is available for osX
ReplyDeletecheck this out: http://www.browserforthebetter.com
ReplyDeleteMicrosoft is even more desperate :D
Download IE 8 for a "good" reason
@Stefan
ReplyDeleteThat only gives me an "Install Silverlight" button. You wanna transpose what's in that lil applet they've made?
I use OS X....
ReplyDeleteActually this is getting funy:
ReplyDeletehttp://tengrandisburiedthere.com/
Deadlink now.. they JUST removed it..
ReplyDeleteCan anyone say IETab?
ReplyDeleteFsck it! We'll do it live! We'll do it live!
ReplyDeleteI mean, you have to admit that it's pretty effective, I could use $10k.
ReplyDeleteI have used both IE 8 and Firefox on the Blastoff Network website and Firefox loads and runs a lot faster
ReplyDeleteIE is fast, faster than chrome obviously, by alot
ReplyDelete