Windows Live Mail Beta problems

[B33R]

Is anyone else not able to access their Windows Live Mail Beta using Firefox?
I was getting an error message all day yesterday and it still isn't fixed today. Am I alone with this?

Windows Live Mail was not able to complete this request. Microsoft may contact you about any issues you report. Report this issue to Microsoft | Network status

As usual the "report this issue" link doesn't work and "network status" reports no problems.
Oddly, I can access it by changing my useragent to GoogleBot, it just won't work when it's Firefox. Weird.

I guess it's another Microsoft ploy to get people to switch back to IE....

 

[fab]

I use Firefox 2.0a, it works fine.
http://imgshrt.com/theheap/75125643.jpg

 

[B33R]

Thanks.

It's odd. Here's a screenshot of mine.
I emailed them, hopefully they won't take too long to respond.

 

[planetcall]

works for FF 1.5.3

 

[B33R]

Attack of the cut-and-pasters!

Thank you for contacting Windows Live Mail Beta Support. My name is ******. I will be glad to assist you. I understand you have found you are unable to access Windows Live Mail using Fire fox 1.5.0.3. I realize this can be frustrating and I do apologize for the inconvenience.

At this time, only Internet Explorer version 6.0 officially supports the Windows Live Mail Beta. Depending on the customer feedback, additional browsers may be supported in the future version of the Windows Live Mail Beta.
Please try accessing your Windows Live Mail through Internet Explorer6. If you then find you still need further assistance, please feel free to contact us again.

Thank you for contacting Windows Live Beta.

They obviously never read (or understood) what I wrote. No surprise there then.

Anyhoo I resolved the problem myself - they'd changed the view from "Classic Hotmail View" to "Windows Live Mail Experience" thus screwing the whole thing up.
I reset the option and it worked again.

Thread can be closed!
(and for the record, I was right the first time - it is a ploy to get people to use IE - look at their response!)

 

[yeppers]

(and for the record, I was right the first time - it is a ploy to get people to use IE - look at their response!)

Seems like it... bastards!

Works fine for me in ff 1.5.0 on a MAC version for the record :P)

 

[B33R]

I told you there was problems and I didn't even post back here after I started getting dead links and mail wouldn't send properly.

Here's the front page in Firefox today:

Whoops!

You may have noticed that some of the new features in Windows Live Mail Beta have gone missing!

Well, you’re right. We hit a couple of bumps with our most recent release, but we’re working hard to bring back the great new features.

In the meantime, we’ve restored the service to the prior release so that you can keep using Windows Live Mail Beta.

For all you Firefox users out there, this means that you’re getting our Classic Hotmail experience again. Don’t worry – we’ll get your new Windows Live experience working as soon as we can!

This is all new stuff we’re doing so we appreciate your patience while we work the kinks out.

Stupid Microsoft.