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Old 11-14-2004, 09:33 PM   #1 (permalink)
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MSN Search Beta Does Not Like Firefox

Hi, I just noticed that MSN Search Beta, apparently, does not want to sell advertisement to Firefox users.

I just published a shot in my blog about it to know what comments I can get.

You can see for yourself clicking in the "Advertise with Us" link at the bottom of any SERP in http://beta.search.msn.com/

What do you think about this?
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Old 11-14-2004, 11:52 PM   #2 (permalink)
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It leads to this http://advertising.msn.com/searchadv/ which worked fine for me. I use firefox. What do you mean?
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Old 11-15-2004, 12:34 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I checked in FireFox and it worked fine for me, too
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I use Firefox, and MSN Search (beta) works fine for me... however when I followed the above intructions properly, it took me here - http://advertising.msn.com/global/oldbrowser.asp - I got a blue page with this on it -
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Please Upgrade Your Browser
You are using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
To view this site you must use:
Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Netscape® Navigator 4.0 or higher

Click here to find the latest free browser from Microsoft
Too funny, the page is named "old browser"... I use the 1 week old Firefox browser.
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Too funny, the page is named "old browser"... I use the 1 week old Firefox browser.
This is typical for sites who do any type of browser check to display an appropriate message and/or page. Since it's a new browser the script cannot validate/recognize the browser so it will default to a "old browser/incompatible" browser page. Same thing happened when Mac's Safari came out and the latest Netscape version came out.

Keep in mind that you may experience this in other sites that do browser detection as well.

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