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When opening an email in Hotmail, the ads keep flashing and the page updating, making it impossible to scroll down to see the rest of the email, any solution?

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In addition, the page tab flashes between "Hotmail - email address" and "Connecting". There was no change after adding the Adblock addon, Hotmail is safe in the NoScript addon.

In addition, the page tab flashes between "Hotmail - email address" and "Connecting". There was no change after adding the Adblock addon, Hotmail is safe in the NoScript addon.

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Sounds like this Bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627729
(Please don't comment in that Bug report unless you can provide a patch to fix the problem.)

Modified by the-edmeister

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The solution seems to be to spoof the user agent to something that the MS code recognizes.

The user agent format has been changed in Firefox 4.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference

Changing the user agent to a Firefox 3.6.x user agent should work.

Create a new String pref via the right-click context menu:

  • general.useragent.override

Value:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:2.0b10) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/3.6.13

See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/about%3Aconfig

Modified by cor-el

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I've been having the same problem, along with a LOT of other people. I don't have the override string in my config file. Should I insert it? Also, what would be the correct value for me on an intel mac osx 10.6.6?

Many thanks for any help you can provide, my email is basically unreadable in FF at the moment.

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which value is required to be changed - I appear to have two: 1. general.useragent.compatMode.firefox = default - boolean - false 2. general.useragent.locale = default - string - en-US

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ok i have windows 7 and i had the problem to, u open your email message and all pictures are blinking and task bar on top to is blinking .My pc is in french but what i did was i open email wen next to a blinking pictures did a right click u have different choses me i click on (ARRETE) witch in english should be (STOP) if this works for you please reply

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The simplest workaround for the moment is to go into about:config and set the html5.enable boolean from true to false.

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as per TonyE...this worked for me

This is a known bug and Microsoft are working on a fix. They plan to fix this before Firefox 4 reaches release candidate phase.

A workaround is to change a preference in Firefox:

   Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
   Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
   Locate the preference html5.enable and double-click on it to change its value to false 

If you do this, remember to set the preference back to true by double-clicking on it again when Firefox 4 release candidate is made available, the bug should be fixed by then.

Modified by gaviria