152577 - Attempting to create a passport at MSN fails!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 141279

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Porter Woodward]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
BuildID:    2002053012

Since I don't really want to tie my MSN passport to my Windows XP login, I 
decided to use Mozilla to do it.  Unfortunately, I see the following error 
message when I attempt to create a new passport:

Microsoft® .NET Passport no longer supports the Web browser version you are 
using. Please upgrade to a current Web browser, such as Microsoft Internet 
Explorer version 4.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 4.08 or later.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://groups.msn.com/home.msnw?pgmarket=en-us
2. Click on 'Sign In'
3. Click on 'Create a Passport'
4. Screen with error message appears.

Expected Results:  Their site should work, as Mozilla is a "greater" browser 
than NS4.0.8!

This isn't per-se a bug with Mozilla - it's a bug with Microsoft.  However, it 
leaves me wondering how closely MSN is tied to the IE browser, and whether it 
constitutes "product tying".  Mozilla is as capable as IE, and I can't imagine 
what they might be doing on their registration page that won't work under 
Mozilla, yet will on IE/NS 4+.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141279 ***

Comment 2

[Porter Woodward]

Attachment: Screenshot of MSN response to Mozilla

Just a screenshot of the response to attempting to create a new passport at MSN
when using Mozilla.