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Sat 28 Mar 20 20:07

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - bathtub tom

This has been going on for a couple of days. I've got it open in a tab that has a continuously revolving circle. Bottom LH corner says:
waiting for azwus2-client-s.gateway.messenger.live.com...

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Sat 28 Mar 20 21:00

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - VxFan

I've just tried my Hotmail account on IE11, Opera, MS Edge, and Chrome and all works fine on all of them.

Have you tried a different internet browser to see if it makes any difference?

Tried clearing out temp files and cookies using something like ccleaner?

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Sat 28 Mar 20 21:23

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - No FM2R

Just tried my Hotmail on Edge, Firefox & Chrome.

It was fine even though I usually access it from an App on my phone and this is the first time I've actually logged into it on-line in a year.

Last edited by: No FM2R on Sat 28 Mar 20 at 21:23

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Sun 29 Mar 20 09:48

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - smokie

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/messengerlivecom-outlookcom-doesnt-complete/bb246f0b-c137-4f41-8f83-77a7a44ff4c1

Changing browser fixed it for the bloke in that thread so both above are on the money - try Dave's suggestions of cleaning up your browser

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Mon 30 Mar 20 09:28

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - bathtub tom

Cleaned up my browser (firefox classic) to no avail. Looks like I'm changing browser.

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Mon 30 Mar 20 10:43

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - smokie

Just try a different one in the first place, to make sure that's the cause. Once you establish that we can look more at what else you can do to fix.

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Mon 30 Mar 20 10:54

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - No FM2R

Also try Firefox with all it's add-ons disabled. Particularly ad-blockers, tracker blockers and that sort of thing.

Especially if you've changed anything like that recently.

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Mon 30 Mar 20 19:19

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - bathtub tom

I downloaded the new waterfox, but couldn't see any way of moving all my bookmarks across from the classic version.
It'll give me something to do for next six months.

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Tue 31 Mar 20 00:03

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - smokie

Putting aside a migration to Waterfox, was email better with it?

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Tue 31 Mar 20 09:24

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - bathtub tom

Yes, much faster.

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Wed 1 Apr 20 00:22

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - smokie

WHat antivirus mail do you use? Try disabling it if you can and see if it helps.

Try restarting Firefox with Addons disabled (under Help)

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Wed 1 Apr 20 16:35

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - bathtub tom

>> WHat antivirus mail do you use? Try disabling it if you can and see if
>> it helps.
>> Try restarting Firefox with Addons disabled (under Help)

I don't use any antivirus other than Windows (defender?) and anything within waterfox. I do have adblock plus, as without it everything seems to slow down (presumably because ads are loading) as my internet is only 4meg (on a good day with a following wind).

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Sun 5 Apr 20 17:27

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - bathtub tom

I've decided to abandon waterfox classic for firefox. Thought I'd transfer my bookmarks across and failed at the first hurdle. Instruction says open library, or library in menu. I don't have a library option that I can see. Is it hidden somewhere or have I to use sync (that'll be a new experience)?

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Sun 5 Apr 20 17:52

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - No FM2R

I use Firefox.

If you hold on for an hour or two I'll install Waterfox and see about bookmark transfer.

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Sun 5 Apr 20 18:00

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - No FM2R

Hmm, didn't take as long as I thought. The short version, it's an a***.

Details here.... (Ignore the preamble and just go to the instructions list)

www.trishtech.com/2018/09/how-to-manually-import-your-firefox-profile-into-waterfox/

Someone in the comments said it didn't work for them. Well I just did it and it worked for me.

Personally I'd try to work out what the problem originally was, because I think it's going to happen to Waterfox too.

Also, have you created a Firefox profile? Because if you have then that will keep all your bookmarks and everything. You could then simply uninstall and re-install Firefox without losing everything.

Last edited by: No FM2R on Sun 5 Apr 20 at 18:04

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Sun 5 Apr 20 20:18

Hotmail (Outlook mail) slow - bathtub tom

Thanks for that, I'll look into it in the morning. The internet's running so slow here after midday it's too frustrating to do anything.

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