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Last few days Firefox does not sign out of Hotmail Completly

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Windows Live ID Sign-out isn't complete...

You signed out of these sites:

 MSN Account Services

We couldn't sign you out of these sites:

 Hotmail
Windows Live ID Sign-out isn't complete... You signed out of these sites: MSN Account Services We couldn't sign you out of these sites: Hotmail

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The specific cookie that you need to remove is login.live.com, and you need to do this and refresh the page every time you log out until somebody fixes it.

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Hi,

This may be a problem sometimes when sites do not delete / expire their own cookies which they set. Please try this: When this message appears click Tools (Alt + T) > Options > Privacy, click Show Cookies... and Search for hotmail, live, msn etc. and click Remove Cookies and refresh the same page.

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What's That Preference? add-on - Quickly decode about:config entries - After installation, go inside about:config, right-click any preference, enable (tick) MozillaZine Results to Panel and again right-click a pref and choose MozillaZine Reference to begin with.

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The above solution only works the once, next time you log in it's back.

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Chosen Solution

The specific cookie that you need to remove is login.live.com, and you need to do this and refresh the page every time you log out until somebody fixes it.