400538 - Cannot access Hotmail since the current update was installed.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Taylor Ledden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

when I attempt to access hotmail.com I get this error message:

The page isn't redirecting properly
      
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

     *   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
          cookies

Cookies are enabled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type hotmail.com in address bar
2.Press enter
3.
Actual Results:  
Error message as above.

Expected Results:  
Access to hotmail

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

WFM

Comment 2

[John Vivirito]

Taylor and Gary please test with 3.0.6. on Ubuntu Linux i dont see this issue. This is a very old bug and I'm betting this was fixed with 3.0*.

Comment 3

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.5