271140 - Can not login to email account on Yahoo

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Clinton Bell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

When I upgraded from Mozilla 1.2.1 to Mozilla 1.7.3 I could not login to my email
account on Yahoo!.  I have email accounts on other web sites that I am able to 
login to without any problem.  I have Mozilla 1.4b on another computer and was not
able to login with this version of the browser.  I am able to login using IE.

I re-installed Mozilla 1.2.1 and was able to login to my Yahoo! email account.
The problem appears to be with the password because Yahoo brings up a page to
confirm my password.

After re-installing Mozilla 1.2.1 I did not install Java or any plug-ins.




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Yahoo! email login page
2. Enter user name and password
3. 

Actual Results:  
A password confirmation page opens, when you re-enter the password nothing
happens the page just re-freshes.  I can not go any further.


Expected Results:  
I should have been taken to my email account.

Comment 1

[jean]

I am having the same problem. This is the address where the problem starts
http://mail.yahoo.com/
I type in my login and password and end up here
http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us&rand=598715354&i=IWZkZHNKIXRzZnNydEpidXV4dSF0ZEqOZHh4fH5iU356YmNYcnM%3d&.done=http%3a%2f%2fus.f547.mail.yahoo.com%2fym%2flogin%3f.rand%3d1qmje1vg1hkpa%26login%3d1
Then if I retype my login and password I end up here
http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us&rand=910754633&i=IWZkZHNKIXRzZnNydEpidXV4dSF0ZEqOZHh4fH5iU356YmNYcnM%3d&.done=http%3a%2f%2fus.f547.mail.yahoo.com%2fym%2flogin%3f.rand%3d1qmje1vg1hkpa%26login%3d1%26login%3d1
And so on....

Comment 2

[Joe Mehaffey]

I wonder if this problem will be fixed?  I reported yahoo login problems six
months ago and the same problem as the reported one is still happening in 1.7.5

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Hi Joe,

i also have a Yahoo Mail Account and no Problems to Sign-In. WFM Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050321

Do you stil have the Problem ? Does this still happend every time ?

Comment 4

[irongut]

Have you tried clearing your cookies?

Go to Tools, Cookie Manager, Manage Stored Cookies
Ensure Dont allow sites that set removed cookies... is NOT ticked
Delete all yahoo.com cookies
Go to Cookie Sites tab
Ensure no yahoo.com domains are in the list

Comment 5

[kevin arnold]

I experience this same problem.  After logging in, there is no page rendered
because of a JavaScript error.  

Error: removeCookie is not defined
Source File: http://us.f209.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?login=1
Line: 121

See my comment on bug #256651.

I am using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050311
Firefox/1.0.1

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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