REALTIME IT NEWS
REALTIME IT NEWS
Newsletters Select newsletters below and click the button to sign up!
Internetnews BloggersRecent Entries
ArchivesMonthly ArchivesSearch The Blog
« Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 arrives a month late |
Sean Michael Kerner Blog
| Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 »
Google Chrome fixes Hotmail by being Safari From the "who do you want to be today" files:
Google is continuing its rapid development of its Chrome browser with the dev-channel release of Chrome version 0.4.154.33. Again this is mostly a bug fix, though two of the bugs are really interesting. Bug #6482 fixes an issue with composing mail and switching folders in Hotmail. The really interesting part is that Google admits that Hotmail does not yet properly recognize the Chrome browser so users need to trick Hotmail into thinking that Chrome is actually Apple Safari (which is supported by Hotmail). Here's the workaround from Google to make Chrome appear to be Safari for Hotmail use: Add the following to the shortcut you use to launch Google Chrome: --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19" Right-click the Google Chrome shortcut, click Properties, and paste the line above to the end of the Target field.Another interesting bug is #6418 which lets Google Desktop call Google Chrome as a default browser. Seems straight forward enough - though it sure does seem odd that Google Desktop wouldn't have fully supported Chrome from day one. 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Google Chrome fixes Hotmail by being Safari. TrackBack URL for this entry: https://swarm.jupitermedia.com/mt-tb.cgi/6016 7 CommentsLeave a comment |
||
Legal Notices, Licensing, Reprints, Permissions, Privacy Policy.
Advertise | Newsletters | Shopping | E-mail Offers
|
Microsoft Partner Portal Video: Microsoft Gold Certified Partners Build Successful Practices |
MORE WEBCASTS, PODCASTS, AND VIDEOS |
|
Iron Speed Designer Application Generator |
MORE DOWNLOADS, EKITS, AND FREE TRIALS |
Digg
Del.icio.us
furl
StumbleUpon
BlinkList
Newsvine
Magnolia
Facebook
Tailrank
Slashdot
Technorati
Google
Bookmarks
Yahoo
Favorites
Windows
Live
Ask
When Google Maps was relatively new, I had to tell Konqueror to identify itself as Firefox just to use it. Of course, not everything worked (especially the panning feature), but it still worked enough to use and it bugged me that Google decided to whitelist certain browsers for Maps (only Firefox and IE at first) and forbid all others.
Not long after, they put up a warning instead, but the fact that you had to click through the warning every time stilled irked me.
This did not work when I tried it. Is there something else, or some special spacing? Thanks.
changing the shortcut to
"C:\Documents and Settings\user1\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19"
as suggested does not work since the additional text pasted at the end of the target field is seen as a web address. Google complains that it can't find the website and gives the error:
This webpage is not available.
The webpage at http://user-agent%3Dmozilla/5.0%20(Windows;%20U;%20Windows%20NT%205.1;%20en-US)%20AppleWebKit/525.19%20(KHTML,%20like%20Gecko)%20Version/3.1%20Safari/525.19 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
A bug in the fix???
how do you make the shortcut?
just put that on my desktop or somthing?
The fix listed above works. I just applied it to my shortcut. My 'Target' field, in it's entirety, reads:
C:\Users\Captain\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19"
And now I can compose. Actually, starting just today, I could not even read email at home or work, so something must have changed. This fixed both issues.
Kirk
This is excellent thanks so much!
Works perfectly finally! Making a great browser complete!
Tip:
remember to add a space between ".exe" and the string of fix code, which begins with "--user-".
it should work. =)