309346 - Microsoft Windows updates denied if using Firefox

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28321

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Nibor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

  When accessing the microsoft windows update site, access is denied if using
Firefox. Update process proceeds normally using IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.access URL update.microsoft.com
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Thank you for your interest in obtaining updates from our site.
  Rather than proceeding to the update processing, the following message is
displayed:
"To use this site, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later.
To upgrade to the latest version of the browser, go to the Internet Explorer
Downloads website."

Expected Results:  
  Should have proceeded to do update scan.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's not a bug in Firefox.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28321 ***