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What version of safari are you running and do you have any plugins installed? Also have you tried in firefox?
Works fine for me. I also use Mail with the httpmail plugin. I started using it before MS bought, and yeah, it kinda sucks now. But it is what it is, and I'm not switching to anything else unless I have to. Even though I also have a Yahoo and Gmail account.
Might be a good opportunity to switch email providers? Setup email forwarding in your Hotmail account, and read your email from a better email provider. Either that or contact Hotmail and find out what the problem is. I doubt it's an issue with Safari.
These types of complaints appear quite frequently and hotmail, like with other MS sites, is renowned for dragging its feet when it comes to creating cross-browser compatible code.
And Microsoft are still trying to buy Yahoo, so they'll be messing up Yahoo e-mail sometime soon too. Mind you, Microsoft's spam filtering seems to be much better than Yahoo's. So hopefully they'll fix that up. I no longer use my Yahoo account because of all the spam.
Going back to the OP, Firefox is your best bet. Safari isn't all that great to be honest. A lot of sites I regularly use don't render properly in Safari.
clear all cookies of anything related to live.com or hotmail or msn this is a known issue and i have posted the fix know at least 7 times try using the search function!
Used to do that on my iPhone too. Wouldn't let me log in sometime. Yeah, clearing everything sometimes worked. It was a pain, but it worked. I have mine on my Macs set to clear most things automatically, so I didn't think about it.
Hopefully seals will return to tell us if it works now.
Hopefully seals will return to tell us if it works now.
Safari 3 is the bomb!? what you on about child
LoL Sorry but safari three works great for me. Fastest browser I have used.
Safari 3 is the bomb!? what you on about child
LoL Sorry but safari three works great for me. Fastest browser I have used.
Speed doesn't matter to me all that much. Firefox is fast enough and Firefox 3 is supposed to be rivalling Safari in terms of speed. The problem I have with Safari is simply that it doesn't render some of my favourite pages properly (eg, try EVE Online in Safari and then in another browser). The frames are a bit messed up in Safari (or tables, layers or whatever it is they use these days).
my friend's macbook did the same thing... it's strange; i don't understand why.
However, it always works if you use the Windows Live portal.
Alternatively, resetting Safari helps, too.
sorry to off topic, but is forwarding a "new" feature in Windows Live Hotmail? It's never been there for me, and it would be very helpful in ridding myself of the junk they call Hotmail...