Mrs. Muddled Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Why am I getting this pop up consistently when I try to redirect. This particular time I was in my Yahoo mail and I tried to open a Hollywood gossip story (I MUST know what Paris is up to! ). This is what came up. I deleted Firefox and reinstalled it a couple of days ago. Didn't help. I hate to give up on Firefox. My IE is absolutely hopeless. It takes so long to do anything I forget why I sat down at the computer. I haven't made any changes to my cookie settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youneverknow Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 (edited) Here is what I found on the mozilla site: HTTP is the application-layer protocol that most web pages are transferred with. As part of the HTTP specification, servers can send redirects - an instruction that the browser should try to get the content from another URL. Because one URL could redirect to another and the other could redirect to the first, causing an infinite loop, a limit is placed on how many redirects can occur on one request. This preference controls that limit. When the redirection limit is reached, you will get one of the following messages: * The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete. Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site? NOTE: If accepting the site's cookies does not resolve the problem, it is likely a server configuration issue and not your computer. * Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete. * Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked. Here is one fix found in a discussion forum: Open up FireFox Tools Options Click the + next to cookies Click Clear Click Exceptions and click Remove All Sites. DONE! Edited February 23, 2009 by youneverknow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. Muddled Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 Well, the first one I had already read and didn't appear to fit my situation. I just had success with the second suggestion and so far everything seems to be working normally again. I can't figure out why all of a sudden the "problem" started. Thanks so much for your reply. Now if I could only figure out how to make Internet Explorer work. It is really hopeless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. Muddled Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 I spoke too soon. It's started again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted March 2, 2009 Share Posted March 2, 2009 If removing cookies corrected it last time maybe you have a corrupt cookie from a site your frequent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs. Muddled Posted March 2, 2009 Author Share Posted March 2, 2009 I've been going back into my Firefox options and clearing it. It isn't helping. I don't have any cookies blocked ... at least I don't think I do. It must be something to do with firefox. I particularly have a problem when I sign into Yahoo and then try to open a news article. Once in awhile the article will open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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