591798 - cannot log in to aim from gmail

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Edward Schwartz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b4) Gecko/20100818 Firefox/4.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b4) Gecko/20100818 Firefox/4.0b4

When I try to log in to aim from gmail, get message to reenter password...password is correct as I can log in to AIM from aol home page








Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1log off of gmail

2.log in to gmail
3.still cannot get into aim
Actual Results:  
could not get into aim chat

Expected Results:  
get into AIM chat

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Google uses the AOL Open Authentication API (OpenAuth) to sign in to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).

That's out of the scope of Firefox. If the authentication doesn't work that has to be solved by Google / AOL.


https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=61024