[vox-tech] Firefox and MSN

[Rod Roark]

That's easy.  Dump MSN and save a few bucks to boot.

Toast.net is a good, cheap national dialup ISP that I have
used and recommended in the past.

After that's done, the time will be ripe to tell your
friend to finish the job by switching to Linux.  ;-)

-- Rod

On Thursday 29 July 2004 04:04 pm, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I gave a friend some LUGOD-inspired advice to switch her browser from 
> Internet Explorer to Firefox.  She is trying to, but there's a catch.  
> Her ISP is MSN.  When she connects to MSN with Internet Explorer she 
> gets the membership webpage which allows her to do things like check 
> e-mail, etc.  But when she connects to MSN with Firefox she gets the 
> same webpage that any of us non-members would get.  So it's almost like 
> you can't be a member of MSN without using Internet Explorer.
> 
> Does anybody know how to fix this problem?  I realize that this is not 
> the best list to ask about how to connect to MSN, but does anyone have 
> an idea of what we can do to get Firefox to connect to MSN in such a way 
> as to give her a membership webpage?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Bob