Safari and MSN Hotmail problem

[slunky]

Until recently I had no trouble opening MSN Hotmail in Safari. Now when I try, several addresses bounce back and forth until it loads a page saying
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I have tried loading Hotmail's page from every angle I can think of; from bookmarks, MSN's homepage, MyMSN, etc.
I have no such issue with Firefox. It loads fine in Firefox.

 

[paulwells73]

I have the exact same problem.

 

[spoongibbon]

Same here. it seems to have happened after the last Messenger update.

 

[shagadelic45200]

i have the same problem....the only work around i have found is to delete the cookies from safari (safari-preferences-show cookies-remove all) and then it works, but you have to do this ALL THE TIME!

would be nice if there is a premanent fix, anyone?

 

[terrielicious]

i went to the mac store and a genius told me its a problem that microsoft is trying to fix. I think its just cause microsoft sucks lol no but really its been the past few weeks and i suggest although annoying just use firefox because it works. that was his recommendation as well. k? <3

 

[terrielicious]

he also said it should be fixed soon. there's nothing we can do from our end of the computer screen to fix the problem so sit back and enjoy the annoyance.

 

[Kiki71]

I have exactly same problem like Mr.Slunky. I hope this problem will solve soon.

 

[thumper]

i have the feeling this is a bug mircosoft made for safari...
its been going on for way too long... and its funny only safari doesnt work with hotmail...

 

[Agurri]

Hum, I had this problem, and I found a solution:

1. You have to install the debug menu in Safari. First, you have to close Safari, then in terminal, apply this command :

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

(If you ever want to disable the menu, just re-apply the command with 0 instead of 1).

2. Restart Safari; now you should see the debug menu on top.
3. Go to your hotmail account, and when you are on the error page, just go in the Debug menu -> User Agent -> Windows MSIE 6.0.

This should do it.... post back if you have any problems

 

[abqsammy]

works!

I have Safari 1.3.2, and your ftx works well.
many thanks!
Sammy

 

[genedi]

Hi Agurri,

could you please be more specific (sorry, I'm really bad with computers and have just switched from PC to Mac and I'm a bit lost here) !
Don't know where to apply the command you speak of ! Also, where is the "debug menu" ?
Sorry for asking what are probably very stupid questions but I have no other way to learn (my husband is a "PC man", he was the one to help me out when I had a problem, now that I have a Mac he tells me "you wanted a Mac, now deal with it" !!! (He's just jealous !)

 

[nwriko]

Safari and MSN Hotmail problem

does this help you?

Open the Terminal program, which you'll find in the Applications_Utilities folder. Once launched, Terminal opens a single window displaying a greeting and a second line of text that comprises the prompt. With that window active, anything you type will enter just before the rectangular cursor that follows the prompt. After you type a command, simply press Return or Enter to run it.

 

[genedi]

Hello nwriko,

Yes, thank you (could never have found it alone ) except that when I enter the command, I get a message "command not found" ! ???

Uhhhhh, what should I do now ???

 

[Agurri]

Make sure you quit Safari. Copy/Paste the command. It should work....

 

[Neil321]

No such problems with safari 3

 

[genedi]

Thank you all so much for your help, don't know what I did different from the 1st time but now it works fine (thanks to the debug which is now installed and allowed me to open my hotmail where it used to endlessly try to load without success), again thank you for your help !!!

Genevieve
(A proud and happy Mac user) !

 

[BlakTornado]

Hum, I had this problem, and I found a solution:

1. You have to install the debug menu in Safari. First, you have to close Safari, then in terminal, apply this command :

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

(If you ever want to disable the menu, just re-apply the command with 0 instead of 1).

2. Restart Safari; now you should see the debug menu on top.
3. Go to your hotmail account, and when you are on the error page, just go in the Debug menu -> User Agent -> Windows MSIE 6.0.

This should do it.... post back if you have any problems

Wait. Does that do what I think it does? (Change Safari to mimic another browser)

Because that would be incredibly useful if it did...

 

[iCeFuSiOn]

Wait. Does that do what I think it does? (Change Safari to mimic another browser)

Because that would be incredibly useful if it did...

Yes, it changes the user agent that the browser reports to the server, so that the server thinks you're running a different browser.

I've noticed that if you don't set Windows Live ID to save your password, then this issue doesn't occur (so if you set it to remember username only for example).

 

[Agurri]

Wait. Does that do what I think it does? (Change Safari to mimic another browser)

Because that would be incredibly useful if it did...

Yes, but be careful. Some things doesn't work when you mimic-ing MSIE 6.0. i.e. when you're in hotmail, you can't click on links.... so I only use it to load hotmail

I've noticed that if you don't set Windows Live ID to save your password, then this issue doesn't occur (so if you set it to remember username only for example).

Yea, but this trick is very useful if you aren't the only one using the computer.

 

[hwojtek]

I had this problem on two computers (PPC and Intel) and the cookie bug in ICBM version of Safari helped me to resolve it in a different way. It works ever since and is dead simple:
1. delete all cookies set by hotmail.com and live.com
2. quit Safari and launch it again.
3. login to Hotmail, making sure you only store you username (account) and not the password.

The other workaround (but this time it works the problem around in a really big circle) is to use the "Account settings" (or similar, can't remember now) link in the Hotmail failed login screen. It allows a proper login on next screen, and if you typed http://www.hotmail.com in Safari address bar, it will open up your email folders without the need for login this time (the Live login is kept in the browser as long as it is not closed).

 

[BlakTornado]

Yes, but be careful. Some things doesn't work when you mimic-ing MSIE 6.0. i.e. when you're in hotmail, you can't click on links.... so I only use it to load hotmail

Well I was thinking more for testing out my website Since I don't actually have Internet Explorer ready at hand, this is really useful because I don't design my website to be Explorer compatible - just FireFox and Safari... so thus i end up having to put a javascript message saying "This site may not work properly with internet explorer. Sorry"... so that's why this is useful for me

Thanks a bundle for sharing it!

 

[captkirk]

I am new to mac also- your fix worked great! Thanks for the great info!

 

[josdie]

Hotmail and my mac

Hiya,

I'm just a dutch bimbo and am unfortunately not able to understand your solution to the hotmail-not-opening problem. I got as far as opening terminal and puting in: defaults write com......etc. then i pressed enter/return and the termiinal did it's thing which is like chinese for me (nope, dutch people can't speak chinese either). After I opened Safari again I just couldn't find that deBug menu you are telling me about... What am i doing wrong!

Please help me....

Ta

 

[Agurri]

josdie,

First, make sure Safari is quit. Second, when you enter the command defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1, you should not see any confirmation.
I joined a picture of what you should expect.

Report back if you still have problems.

PS. You can also try to reboot. Never hurts.

 

[christine82126]

I can't get the debug menu to appear.

I have followed the directions exactly and rebooted as well... I just can't seem to get the debug menu to appear.
I dont know if you might be able to help me.