Daniel,

it's great that you are dealing with that.

I've just now tried  lynx, firefox, safari on Mac OS X 10.5.8 from the same 
network. With the result that
- lynx 2.8.6rel.5 opens both research.microsoft.com and 
research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/thoare even when all cookies are accepted, 
and many more pages from the domain (but, trivially, refuses to open aspx 
pages),
- firefox 3.6.4 refuses to open any pages under research.microsoft.com
- safari Version 5.0 (5533.16) refuses to open any pages under 
research.microsoft.com

In my roles as an internet user I don't understand the technical stuff.
But I do see that the most popular browser (IE) displays the page. And I do see 
that it is technically possible for the open browsers like lynx.

So, given that Microsoft's IE on Windows is the most popular browser, whether 
we want it or not, Microsoft defined the standard. Not the HTTP or other 
specifications. Thus:
firefox is defective.

Currently, this nonconformant behaviour prevents me from using firefox and 
makes me use lynx or IE. Not only me. All research folks too. As long as MS 
doesn't care about how we want them to behave, we have to stick to their 
standards.

Thus: reopening the bug.

Sasha.



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