Hotmail not working in Chrome?

dulpit

Hey, so i've been pretty much using Chrome as my main browser since it was launched, and i've never had any problems with it at all (except i can't set an image as my desktop background, but that's no biggie) until last week.

I have 2 email accounts, 1 hotmail & the other gmail. I use my gmail as my main account, and only check my hotmail from time to time. I have noticed that since early last week (i think) it no longer works in Chrome. I can log into hotmail, and I can see my inbox. But when i click on anything in the hotmail window (be it an email, my junk folder, etc.) nothing at all happens... When i click on something "javascript;;" shows up briefly in the bottom left hand corner... It's a pain to have to load up another browser just for hotmail..

Has anyone else come across this problem and/or has anyone a fix??

ethernet

Just fired up the VM to check. Seeing the exact same thing. Not to be MS bashing but Hotmail always throws fits unless viewing in anything except IE. Perhaps a Chrome update will resolve it.

dulpit

Hopefully... I've become so used to Chrome's unibar (or whatever it's called) that I struggle when using any other browser...

FruitLover

dulpit wrote: »

has anyone a fix??

Set your hotmail account to forward to your gmail account.

Smcgie

FruitLover wrote: »

Set your hotmail account to forward to your gmail account.

I think hotmail A/c's only let you forward to another Hotmail A/C.

dulpit

Ya, I think you can only do that (forward your hotmail account) if it allows POP access or something, and you need to get the plus version of hotmail (the one you pay for...)

mercuroman

I had the same problem. Do the following:
Right click on the link you use to open Chrome.
Add the following to target:
--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"

So for me this changed from
"C:\Documents and Settings\mercuroman\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
to
"C:\Documents and Settings\ mercuroman\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --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"

That should fix it

Krusty_Clown

Alternatively, you can access your hotmail account through an iGoogle gadget. Visit http://www.google.com/ig, and add one of the Hotmail gadgets.