just wandering if anyone has had this problem,my homepage is msn dot com in both ie,ff.when i try to sign in to my hotmail account it always says invalid username or password(its correct)then when i enter it again it signs in.does this with the sons and wifes accounts also,any clues?i just uninstalled comodo 3(curious to see)and ie now works fine with hotmail but ff still has that problem,it starts on http and when i enter email & password it switches to https and says invalid ?
What is your firewall sounds similar to zone alarm with privacy settings as it stops the passage of passwords, etc. from http to https (secure) pages and vice versa.
Try starting from the https login page rather than an http page so there is no flit flopping between different pages.
You might also need cookies enabled.
my firewall is comodo 3,how do i enable cookies i never disabled them(dont know how)?
Cookies I would think are a setting in IE but if you haven’t changed anything but the problem exists then that might not be the problem. Firefox has cookie controls but also has extensions for advanced cookie control.
Check for blocked applications in comodo relating to msn (though you say this often works second time round signing in), but that too might not be the problem.
Have you tried starting from the https sign-in page for msn ?
i was curious so i uninstalled comodo 3 and ie works fine with hotmail but ff still has problem,i tried starting with https but does same thing,why is it that when i click hotmail link from msn dot com,enter my email & password it switches from http to https? it never did that before,and now its just in ff?
Apparently this is quite common,the only work around I have read,is when your password is refused,and it takes you to https, bookmark the latter.When you use the bookmark next time you recieve an error,but only have to log in once.I dont know how this would be, if you made the https your homepage.http://tinyurl.com/2unjsy
ok now i know its not just me
I access hotmail through trillian and don’t have any problems.
Hi bri,
Maybe the following article will answer your sign-in question:
http://go.infopackets.com/e20080228-14