Firefox/hotmail problem.

Stevev · 20 Dec 2008 at 18:44

Just wondering if anyone could help with this little problem.

Everytime I sign into hotmail and go to options -> more options -> View and edit your personal information, I always get this message.

"There's a temporary problem"
There's a temporary problem with the service. Please try again. If you continue to get this message, try again later."

I thought alright I'll try again later, so I tried again later, it still said the same.
I've kept trying over the past week and I still keep getting the same message. So I tried doing it in IE7, it worked first time. Tried in ff and got the message above again..

Anyone have any idea's of what could be causing this in ff ?

Kennysevenfold · 20 Dec 2008 at 18:47

cant you just change the setting in IE.? lol

Stevev · 20 Dec 2008 at 18:50

I did change the setting in IE, but was wondering what could be causing ff to display the above message.

Kennysevenfold · 20 Dec 2008 at 18:53

Ahhh lol could be a bug.? are you using a 64bit OS.?

have you tried reinstalling FF.?

Stevev · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:02

Vista 32.
I haven't tried to reinstall yet, but I've just tried ff in safemode and it'll allow me to change the setting. Guess it might be something t'do with some of my add-ons.
I'll just go through them one-by-one to find the culprit.

yashiro · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:12

You get it with firefox because Hotmail uses about 3 different sites to logon.
You (and your cookies) get re-directed many times and it screws up.

Try disabling all your addons and enable all cookies. You could also look at network.http.redirection-limit but it's usually down to blocked cookies/scripts.

Stevev · 20 Dec 2008 at 19:24

yashiro said:
it's usually down to blocked cookies/scripts.

That's exactly what the problem was, it was no scripts that was causing the problem. I thought I'd set it to allow hotmail, But I guess I didn't set it to allow all scripts from hotmail/live.

LiE · 20 Dec 2008 at 21:01

I'd swap to Gmail