Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Get Outlook Web Premium on Linux with Chrome

I switched to Linux Mint and use Chrome as my preferred browser. No I ran into the "issue" that Outlook decided to switch to the Lite version. That is really annoying.
There is an easy fix for that! It is an Extension for Chrome called "User-Agent Spoofer for Chrome".
You can configure it to spoof the User-Agent only for the web outlook URL.
The User-Agent can be found in "chrome://version" page.
  1. Go to the menu and select "More tools / Extensions"
  2. Click "options"
  3. Select the "Permanent spoof list"
  4. Fill in your domain
  5. I selected "Android KitKat" as User-Agent and that seems to work just fine
... Hmm. That did not work. The trick is to first select IE10 and then you will get an ActiveX message. Ignore that and change the User-Agent to the Windows version. Something like this: 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.89 Safari/537.36

This is actually the same as for Linux except the "(Windows NT 6.1)" part.

Some functionality that is still not working :-(
  1. Attach files