Google Chrome and Hotmail - Can't click to open messages.

fmian · 01-14-09, 06:20 PM

This just started yesterday.
I login to hotmail via the website through Google Chrome, I can see the list of emails I have, but cannot click on them to view them. IE works fine though.

I have the latest version of Chrome, all the latest Windows Updates, and have tried it with Trend Micro IS turned off as well.

Anyone have any idea what's going on?

fumanstan · 01-14-09, 06:47 PM

It's an issue with Hotmail not detecting what browser Chrome is. They have a workaround -

Quote:

[r6482] Fixes issues with composing mail and switching folders in Hotmail. Hotmail still does not properly recognize Google Chrome, so to use the site, you have to add the following to the shortcut you use to launch Google Chrome:

--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19"

Right-click the Google Chrome shortcut, click Properties, and paste the line above to the end of the Target field.
Note: This should only be used for testing or a temporary workaround to use Hotmail; it makes sites treat your browser as Safari 3. We hope to get the issue with user agent detection resolved with Hotmail so this step isn't needed.

fmian · 01-14-09, 08:52 PM

Right on!!
That fixed it. Thanks man.

Rival11 · 01-14-09, 09:20 PM

The temp workaround will work - give it time - right now calendar is unavailable due to an upgrade and hotmail is next (for chat intergration and moving the ad from the top to the side).

rali · 01-16-09, 07:59 PM

is that only for mac cuz i did it and a window popped up saying its not valid???

fmian · 01-17-09, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by rali

is that only for mac cuz i did it and a window popped up saying its not valid???

Add a space between the existing text in the box, and the text you pasted in after it.

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fmian DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,166	Re: Google Chrome and Hotmail - Can't click to open messages. Right on!! That fixed it. Thanks man. __________________ Swiss Woman: "You killed him!" Herbert West: "No I did not. I gave him life."

01-14-09, 09:20 PM	#4
Rival11 DVD Talk Gold Edition Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 2,655	Re: Google Chrome and Hotmail - Can't click to open messages. The temp workaround will work - give it time - right now calendar is unavailable due to an upgrade and hotmail is next (for chat intergration and moving the ad from the top to the side).

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rali New Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1	Re: Google Chrome and Hotmail - Can't click to open messages. is that only for mac cuz i did it and a window popped up saying its not valid???