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  • November 11, 2004 at 7:14 pm #2285244

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    by newtekdb · about 17 years, 6 months ago

    i get some emails using hotmail.com in which Im not able to activate the hyperlinks. It keeps going to the window about the ‘message has been idle too long, refresh the page and try to open’; but it never opens. What can it be?

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    • November 11, 2004 at 7:29 pm #3313186

      Reply To: hyperlinks

      by rindi1 · about 17 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to hyperlinks

      Maybe some page with active content that changes and therefore isn’t where it was before.

      • November 13, 2004 at 7:31 am #3311406

        Reply To: hyperlinks

        by newtekdb · about 17 years, 6 months ago

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        Poster rated this answer.
        could be, but this is happening on all the emails I receive on hotmail. Thanks

    • November 13, 2004 at 5:29 pm #3311340

      Reply To: hyperlinks

      by rindi1 · about 17 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to hyperlinks

      What do you use to get to hotmail? An Email Client or Internet Explorer? Have tried it with a 3rd party product like mozilla firefox or thunderbird?

    • November 13, 2004 at 7:36 pm #3311322

      Reply To: hyperlinks

      by rewrite · about 17 years, 6 months ago

      In reply to hyperlinks

      This has been an issue in Hotmail and AOL for a long time. The problem appears to be that when you click on a link you are not really going to that site. You are staying in Hotmail and opening the site in a frame. This doesn’t seem to be an issue with all links but most of the problems occur due to a couple of things. If the link takes up more than 1 line then it seems that Hotmail cannot handle the entire address. If the link is taking you to a site that is directing you to another site (like many news emails do to measure article popularity) then Hotmail has a problem (and you don’t know that that is what the link is actually doing).

      I have never heard of a fix for this problem and after reviewing a number of sites for resolutions to this issue what they tell you to do is either open a separate browser window and copy/paste the link into that window or use a different email client.

      Cheers.

      RW

    • May 10, 2005 at 10:28 pm #3256256

      Reply To: hyperlinks

      by krypt · about 17 years ago

      In reply to hyperlinks

      As a workaround, try copy/paste the link in another browser window.

      You could also try unchecking the option “reuse windows for launching shortcuts” on the advanced tab of the internet options.

      If all fails, just remind yourself that Hotmail sucks. 😉

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