Posted by JC at
I fixed it!! Hooray! So if there is anyone else out there that is also using Google Chrome, but is having issues with Hotmail, you can fix it with a fairly easy fix.
- Right-click the Google Chrome shortcut
- Click Properties
- Paste the line below to the end of the Target field.
- --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"
That is all. It should work now without any issues. If you are having problems, then make sure that you have a space between the end of the current text in the target field, and the text above (the first '--'). Here is what my target string now looks like:
"C:\Documents and Settings\Tenney\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"
Oh yeah, what it does, is it fakes out Hotmail to make it think that it is really Safari. Darn Hotmail folks won't let Google just have their own... :).
Found the fix here.
Comments
Bradwich said...
Good tip for the Chrome users. I still haven't found a good reason to switch from Firefox, though.
JC said...
I have. It's called memory usage. I usually have 10 or so tabs open and Firefox lags my computer down (500 MB of memory or so - yes, that's 1/2 GB). Not to mention that Chrome is much much faster. But that is the most important to me :).
Bradwich said...
Fair enough. I've got a gig, so there's not nearly so much lag. Plus, I love the extensions (which DO slow it down a little more) and it makes me cry when I have to surf with ads.