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Subject: Problem With .NET Passport on Bungie website
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Hey guys, here's the scoop:

I tried to connect to Bungie's homepage today (like I always do), but when I get there I get a screen that comes up and asks for me to sign in with my .NET passport. I think 'weird' - I told my browser (Firefox v 1.0) to remember stuff like that and sign in automatically so I don't have to mess with it. Now, behind the usual .NET sign in box, I see some of bungie's site - the bottom bar with the privacy statement, terms of use, code of conduct, etc. But the rest of the site won't come out.

What freaks me out is that the page keeps reloading - even if I don't touch a thing - it gets caught in like an endless reloading loop. And nothing I can do, short of pressing Escape stops it. If I put in my e-mail and pw, it just keeps reloading as if nothing happened - same thing if I click a link or if I try to access the forums directly via a link left in my history folder.

So I at first thought 'spyware', but my box is clean - full scans, new definitions - Spybot S&D and Adaware (with tea Timer running in the bg). A few things on the scans, but nothing serious, and nothing that mattered - I tried to connect again and nothing happened. Right now I'm logged in under my wife's profile and everything is working fine. So I have to deduce from that that the problem is local - confined to my machine.

Which means the soul still resides in its private ecto-plasmic containment unit in bungie's basement. What's scarier is that I think it may have possessed my profile - how do I exorcise it?

  • 05.11.2005 8:40 PM PDT

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Considered changing browsers?

and how did you get here?

  • 05.11.2005 10:22 PM PDT
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It is a known fact that Firefox does not work well on Bungie.net, I believe (but am not sure) that could be the issue. I suggest Just using IE for B.net in the future.

  • 05.12.2005 1:51 PM PDT

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The first thing to do when you get a problem like that is switch web browsers. This allows you to isolate the problem. If it works under IE, then the next thing to do is check Firefox. By the way, when Firefox 1.1 comes out, everybody using Firefox should get that, supposedly it fixes a lot of the problems that make Firefox irritating to use on bungie.net. Anyway, you should try clearing your cookies, restarting Firefox, and possibly reinstalling it.

  • 05.12.2005 2:29 PM PDT
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I had a friend that this happened to.Like achronos said, you should clear all cookies, uninstall firefox, reinstall it, and try again. And if you don't want to go through all that, just use IE whenever you plan on going to bungie.

  • 05.12.2005 5:19 PM PDT
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A simpler, albeit temporary fix:

Log in your .NET account on xbox.com (any other working site should do the job) while in Firefox. That should let you back onto Bungie.net w/ no problems.

  • 05.14.2005 9:07 AM PDT
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It looks like the Microsoft .NET Passport team recently overhauled the look of the sign in page (I dont know why) But I am assuming that this was the cause of any recent .NET passport issues.

Can anyone confirm this?

  • 05.15.2005 12:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: kix4trids
A simpler, albeit temporary fix:

Log in your .NET account on xbox.com (any other working site should do the job) while in Firefox. That should let you back onto Bungie.net w/ no problems.


Good idea.
I'll try reinstalling my browser and trying IE, Achronos.

It will, however, be a cold day in hell before I use IE regularly for anything but windows update.

  • 05.15.2005 6:06 PM PDT
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I apologize in advance for the double post, however you will notice the time difference between the two.

The situation was resolved by uninstalling Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 and all previous versions of Firefox and then reinstalling Friefox 1.0.4.

Thanks for the help and suggestions guys.

  • 05.16.2005 6:40 AM PDT
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I would reccomend a change to internet explorer. It works quite nicely.

  • 05.18.2005 11:00 PM PDT
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I'll make sure to do that as soon as the apocalypse visits my front doorstep. Thanks.

  • 05.19.2005 7:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: DrummDragon
I would reccomend a change to internet explorer. It works quite nicely.


That's if you so dig security loopholes. I suggest that if you don't use IE that you at least get Advanced Browser. It works off the same principles as IE does except all those damned security loopholes are filled in and it is much more functional. It seems like every time I open IE, I get some sort of error or it triggers a crapload of popups. By the way, I do use Firefox every once in a while and I'm used to the slow-ass choppy scrolling by now.

Edit: Advanced Browser can also download Windows Updates.

[Edited on 5/19/2005]

  • 05.19.2005 11:06 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

another thing is that the scroll wheel is really slow on B.net

  • 05.20.2005 12:29 AM PDT