I have a macbook(not pro)running on OS X10.5.8 everything is as up to date as it can be for a mb this old, however only recently i haven't been able to load hotmail.com(or outlook as it's known now)properly. why?

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I have a macbook(not pro)running on OS X10.5.8 everything is as up to date as it can be for a mb this old, however only recently i haven't been able to load hotmail.com(or outlook as it's known now)properly. why?

I have a macbook (not pro!) running on OS X 10.5.8. everything is as up to date as it can be for a model this old, however only recently i haven't been able to load hotmail.com (or outlook as it's known now) properly. it load half the screen but not the rest... i can't open my emails although can see the subject fields, i can't sign out and it constantly has this cursor with a blue round timer underneath... help! a picture is included of what the screen looks like.. by the way skydrive and all that works fine, just the mail part!

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Dec 3, 2012 1:26 AM

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Dec 3, 2012 7:26 AM in response to josiefeastxx

My best guess would be that the version of Safari you're using is outdated and unsupported by Outlook.com/Hotmail.com. Since you're still running Leopard (OS X 10.5), the best solution is to try Chrome 22 or Firefox 16 (the latest versions supported by Leopard).

Otherwise, I would upgrade to at least Snow Leopard (10.6) then you can run the newest versions of both Firefox and Chrome. You can get the upgrade for free from Apple if you call their customer support.

I have the same model of Macbook and am running the newest version of OS X, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), without a problem. Then you would be able to run the latest version of Safari as well (version 6).

EDIT: Here are links to older versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Chrome 22: http://mac.oldapps.com/google_chrome.php?system=mac_os_x_10.5_leopard_intel

Firefox 16: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/16.0.2/mac/en-US/

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