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I am running 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and using the latest chromium browser to access MS Skydrive on the web. I just get a blank page with no UI. At the same time, I am able to access other services like outlook mail.

Additionally, my friend running 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) can access and use the full Skydrive UI. Any idea why is this seen?

Jorge Castro
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Deepanjan Mazumdar
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  • Do you have flash plugin installed. If not run sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer. – Anwar Aug 30 '12 at 08:17
  • yeah, I do have the latest version of flash installed. I read in some article that skydrive required MS silverlight earlier, but no more. Could that be a problem? – Deepanjan Mazumdar Aug 30 '12 at 15:31

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You need to have silverlight to see skydrive UI, but that is for Windows only. Luckily there is an open-source project which implements most of the silverlight. It is moonlight.

Download this from here and install as per instruction on the same page. It is a Firefox plugin, so I think, you must use Firefox for this. (but may work on chromium also, not tested though).

After installing moonlight plugin, you need to install user-agent-switcher extension in Firefox. Then change the user agent to "Internet Explorer" 7 or 8 (I tested with IE7).

Install the extension by clicking this. Then from Firefox menu → Tools → Default user agent → Internet Explorer → Internet Explorer 7. Then refresh the page to see skydrive UI in your Ubuntu browser!

Anwar
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