hotmail will not load in firefox

emad · Nov 16, 2004

There's a lot of firefox users here so I figured this would be the best place to ask. I made a permanent switch to it a few days ago and so far i'm loving Firefox... but here's my problem. As of 2 hours ago, I was completely unable to even touch my hotmail inbox. I just get a blank screen every time I try.

Any suggestions on how to fix this? Google isn't turning up much that I can make use of - other than the fact that a lot of people have had this same issue.

Best solution i can find is to recreate my profile. That would be extremely inconvenient right now because of my firefox setup right now.

Sage · Nov 16, 2004

Have you tried with IE? (Or are you on a Linux box?)

sUn · Nov 16, 2004

Works fine for me(Firefox 1.0).

CDailey · Nov 16, 2004

Hmm...Hotmail loads fine for me.

emad · Nov 16, 2004

IE works just fine... it's just that my firefox is being screwy all of a sudden.

edit:
found the fix:
type about:config into the browser
then set the value of browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to true - then just restart the browser

donbenni · Nov 16, 2004

Hmm i've been running Firefox forever (not literally) and Hotmail has always loaded. A strange problem, but thanks for the fix.

RX-7_FC_DrIfteR · Nov 16, 2004

sUn
Works fine for me(Firefox 1.0).

Me too. No probleams here.

LoudMusic · Nov 16, 2004

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft eventually did this intentionally. Seems like something they would do.

skip0110 · Nov 16, 2004

If they did it intentionally that would be just plain dumb. Can you imagine the number of people who have Windows machines at home but are forced to use a *nix machine sometimes (at work, etc.)? All these poeple would no longer use Hotmail, because, well, they just couldn't.

Unless Microsoft made an IE for *nix systems. Like that's ever going to happen.

free toes · Nov 17, 2004

hotmail loads fine for me and i use ie. just use ie its p[retty good

LoudMusic · Nov 17, 2004

skip0110
If they did it intentionally that would be just plain dumb. Can you imagine the number of people who have Windows machines at home but are forced to use a *nix machine sometimes (at work, etc.)? All these poeple would no longer use Hotmail, because, well, they just couldn't.

Unless Microsoft made an IE for *nix systems. Like that's ever going to happen.

Actually they did package it for Solaris. The way it functioned was to load an entire emulator into memory, similar to a WINE setup, then launch the Windows version of IE. My friends said it took about 150MB of memory to run IE. Ha ha!

RX-7_FC_DrIfteR · Nov 19, 2004

I don't want to make a new thread so here the question...

About a couple of days ago all gif animations wont work, in my Fire Fox 1.0. Any one know what the problem is?