Firefox and Hotmail at Odds?

[pen]

Morning all.

I recently switched from IE to Firefox as a primary browser due to some issues.

Everything seems to be going smoothly with one exception: I cannot go to www.hotmail.com

Now, before you bust me for a hotmail address, I've had this one since before they were owned by microsoft.

What gives? In doing some searching, I am finding bunches of people with the same issue but cannot seem to find a resolution that will work.

The computer that I have firefox on with XP is the one that will not allow me to go to hotmail.

The computer with vista has no problems.

Any suggestions?

Thanks as always.

pen

 

[Nic36]

I don't have a hotmail account, but I can go to the hotmail page. The page has "Windows Live" on it. I use Firefox and have XP too. Could it be a firewall setting perhaps?

 

[pen]

Thanks for the response. I tried turning windows firewall and my own firewall off and the same result.

Not sure what it's problem is. Probably just a setting somewhere that I am unfamiliar with.

pen

 

[Sealcove]

Quite a few Microsoft specific sites do not play well with other browsers. This might be the case with Windows Live and Hotmail, but I have never tested it. It is probably time to kill the Hotmail account anyway; isn't it a complete spam funnel by now anyway?

 

[pen]

Quite a few Microsoft specific sites do not play well with other browsers. This might be the case with Windows Live and Hotmail, but I have never tested it. It is probably time to kill the Hotmail account anyway; isn't it a complete spam funnel by now anyway?

surprisingly no. There is some spam but certainly not any amount that is not manageable. I would hate to think of how many different sites I couldn't get into when I forget my passwords if I changed that email!

Stuck in my old ways I suppose.

pen

 

[lobsta1]

It's got to be something on your pc. I just tried hotmail from a Vista box with FF version 3 & also from an XP system with FF version 2.
No problem on either system.
Al

 

[pen]

A person from another forum I belong to recommending doing a searching and installing the mozilla add-on called " ie tab"

Apparently this allows certain websites to open within mozilla using IE. (if that makes sense)

I went here (broken link removed to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419)

Installed the add-on and now there are no issues.

Thought I'd share for those of you who were kind enough to give suggestions and advice.

Thanks again,

pen

 

[Nic36]

Glad to hear you got it fixed.

 

[SlyFerret]

I'm using FF3 on Linux (yeah, MS probably hates me!). www.hotmail.com redirects me to the Microsoft Live! login page, which is normal. Microsoft is using their Live! ID as a universal login for all of their Live! services.

I was able to create a Live! ID and login to a hotmail account without any problems.

-SF