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I can't open mail on Hotmail from Firefox. I can from Safari. I can open the Hotmail account page and it is complete w/ my new messages, but when I go to open them I get this messeage..."Please refresh your browser window. When you access your Windows Liv

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AnonymousUser
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I can't open mail on Hotmail from Firefox. I can from Safari. I can open the Hotmail account page and it is complete w/ my new messages, but when I go to open them I get this messeage..."Please refresh your browser window. When you access your Windows Live Hotmail account from more than one computer, we ask you to sign in again to help keep your account private and secure. " when I sign in again there is no change. in English

URL of affected sites

http://http://sn135w.snt135.mail.live.com/default.aspx?n=2087215863

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

I can't open mail on Hotmail from Firefox. I can from Safari. I can open the Hotmail account page and it is complete w/ my new messages, but when I go to open them I get this messeage..."Please refresh your browser window. When you access your Windows Live Hotmail account from more than one computer, we ask you to sign in again to help keep your account private and secure. " when I sign in again there is no change. in English == URL of affected sites == http://http://sn135w.snt135.mail.live.com/default.aspx?n=2087215863 == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

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Morbus
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Hello.

You may be having a problem with some extension or plugin that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?

cor-el
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"Clear the Cache": Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now" "Remove the Cookies" from sites causing problems: Firefox > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies" See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Clearing_the_cache and http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies

Ralph124C41
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I tried restarting it in safe mode but no luck. This has been going for more than a week. How is this for irony: I had to register to post my reply and I had to go to another browser to respond to the confirmation email. Please fix this