Now I see that the http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/thoare/ indeed do open only in particular networks under firefox. I was confused and reported that I can't reproduce the bug (which is true for some networks). In some other networks, firefox won't open the page, but other browsers will. As soon as I investigate the differences on the network level, I'll report here. Sasha.
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