Walmart Rejects Firefox and Safari 555
babooo404 writes "Last week, Walmart launched their online video download service. Immediately there were posts that the service did not work with the Firefox or Safari browsers. There was a collective, "WTF" when this happened as this is 2007, not 1997. Now it appears that reports are out that Walmart has completely turned off the ability to get into the application at all by Firefox, Safari or any other browser it does not like."
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari (Score:5, Funny)
what do you expect? (Score:5, Funny)
Hrmph. Serves them right. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, I take that back, they never had a chance at getting my money.
they are doing a favor (Score:5, Funny)
How many of FF/Safari users out there sincerely want to buy movies from Walmart? I don't even live in the States, so I wouldn't even try.
even if we cannot access it (Score:5, Funny)
will Wal-Mart customers go for this? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Stuffing the Server Logs with Visits (Score:2, Funny)
Find the walmart adwords ad.
Click it.
Walmart sends money to google.
You go to the beta entrance to walmart downloads.
Click it.
Start over.
Re:it's not just the video service (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The old alliance parter program (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Seems reasonable to me (Score:3, Funny)
In the latest XP Service Pack they added the ability to launch multiple processes, so you can have Firefox and IE going at the same time. I even tried loading calc.exe once while doing that, and it ran all three at once just fine.
Re:Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari (Score:2, Funny)
The 90's called, they want their browser back!
Re:WTF? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's their business. (Score:2, Funny)
Um, no... Firefox users are by definition people who use Firefox.
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
For my next trick, I'm going to grow gills. Take THAT progress!
Re:WTF? (Score:4, Funny)
Whoa! Is that possible? Can I actually BECOME South Korea? Can change back to myself if I don't like it?
-matthew
Re:Of course they wouldn't use Firefox or Safari (Score:3, Funny)
Lenovo-compatible PC (Score:3, Funny)
Misspelled DRM... (Score:5, Funny)
They misspelled "DRM protection".
How to shoot yourself in the foot, twice... (Score:5, Funny)
1. Wal-Mart fears they will lose customers to Apple.
2. Wal-Mart launches internet distribution.
3. Wal-Mart removes Safari and Firefox support, thus ensuring they WILL lose customers to Apple.
4. PROFIT! err... Oh, snap!
Text only browsers (Score:5, Funny)
Mind you, the video plug-in for lynx sucks anyway.
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)