273594 - No entry to Electronic Arts FIFA Football 2005 Matchmaker

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[David Scheidl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Everytime after I have accepted Mozilla Firefox 1.0 as standard browser, I can
not login to the Electronic Arts FIFA Football 2005 Matchmaker.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Buy EA's FIFA Football 2005
2. Install the game
3. Register the game
4. Create a matchmaker account
5. Try to login to the matchmaker 

Actual Results:  
It says, that there may be a problem with my network or my cable connection, but
everything else is fine working.

Expected Results:  
Login to the matchmaker

As soon as I have reconfigured Internet Explorer as standard browser, the
problem diappeared.
The matchmaker menu is working with Macromedia Flash

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Invalid bug

From EA's support site

Question What are the minimum system requirements for FIFA 2005? 
Answer

Minimum:
... Cut out text that is not important....
 Required Operating Systems:
 Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP or Windows 2000
 Note that Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 are not supported.

Required Software:
 *** Internet Explorer 6.0 for online play ***
 Macromedia Flash 6.0.79.0 or greater for online play
 DirectX 9.0b

There is no way to use Firefox to play EA Sports FIFA 2005. EA wrote FIFA to
only work with Internet Explorer. It should be possible for you to bookmark
(crtl +D) the EA Matchmaker site in Internet Explorer. Then you could open
Internet Explorer only for online play and leave Firefox as your default browser.