Firefox doesn't show hotmail properly

jessola · 31 Dec 2007 at 16:06

Recently my firefox has started displaying windows live hotmail as load of gibberish, instead of what it should be like. This problem does not affect IE7. The problem just randomly started occouring a few days ago, and i have tried various solutions to no avail. I have rolled back to a prior version of firefox, one which i know always worked, i have reset all settings to default, i have tried the firefox safe mode. If anyone has any idea what might be going on, i would be very greatful for a response.
Here is a screenshot of what the page looks like:

Thanks,
Jessola

wombraider · 31 Dec 2007 at 16:36

it might be due to MS using non standard html code ( they break a lot of rules )
There is a world wide standard for writing web pages that MS ignores

Watch your language - disguising it doesn't count.

Skeeter · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:13

Use IE for Hotmail and Outlook Web Access, and Windows Update, and Firefox for the rest of your online browsing. Its just a fact of life that MS use their own proprietry formats and standards on their applications, meaning things just cant work as well in other browsers.

jessola · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:19

Skeeter said:
Use IE for Hotmail and Outlook Web Access, and Windows Update, and Firefox for the rest of your online browsing. Its just a fact of life that MS use their own proprietry formats and standards on their applications, meaning things just cant work as well in other browsers.

This this is true, and i agree to an extent, but the fact remains that it used to work in firefox, and still works in firefox on my other computers, ie it is specific to this computer.

ichabod crane · 31 Dec 2007 at 19:01

could you be missing some java script of some sort?

swinnie · 31 Dec 2007 at 20:14

Skeeter said:
Use IE for Hotmail and Outlook Web Access, and Windows Update, and Firefox for the rest of your online browsing. Its just a fact of life that MS use their own proprietry formats and standards on their applications, meaning things just cant work as well in other browsers.

Just get the IETAB plugin for firefox, and set hotmail to automatically load using IETAB, it uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine inside firefox.

.walls · 31 Dec 2007 at 21:34

Do you have javascript disabled?

jessola · 1 Jan 2008 at 11:28

No i don't have javascript disabled.

Just get the IETAB plugin for firefox, and set hotmail to automatically load using IETAB, it uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine inside firefox.

That is an option, and i will probably end up doing that. But the thing is i know firefox can do hotmail, because it always has done.

swinnie · 1 Jan 2008 at 11:30

jessola said:
No i don't have javascript disabled.

That is an option, and i will probably end up doing that. But the thing is i know firefox can do hotmail, because it always has done.

It is where MS are using none standard code to force you to use their browser. I have not had any issues with ietab.

Jimmy1983 · 1 Jan 2008 at 11:48

works fine for me in FF