Closed Bug 396729 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Receive an error when trying to connect to Yahoo Mail

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 396683

People

(Reporter: lenlangevin, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 When trying to connect to mail.yahoo.com, an error page is generated with the following 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. My security setting are to accept cookies until they expire. I can access Yahoo Mail using IE 7. The problem started Sept. 19/07 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to mail.yahoo.com Actual Results: The following error page/message is generated: 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. Expected Results: I should be able to log in to my Yahoo Mail account. The problem started Sept. 19 after the latest Firefox update. I accessed my Yahoo account without problem prior to that.
do yahoo mail work when you delete the yahoo cookies, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396683#c3
Clearing cookies and cache solved access problem.
okay, thanks for your feedback, so it seems the same problem as in 396683
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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