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alexbal
Brass Contributor
Dec 03, 2019

Infinite redirects with live.com.

Not strictly an edge issue - I have seen this on and off for years on multiple browsers - but maybe edge team can either create a mitigation or kick the auth team in the proverbial.  I hadn't see thi...
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alexbal
Brass Contributor
Dec 03, 2019

alexbal 

 

I assumed there was no way to choose to only clear some sites because there is no obvious breadcrumb trail from here edge://settings/privacy

 

I did a search in settings and found edge://settings/siteData?search=cookie

(once found the search function + delete those shown by search worked beautifully)

 

I see no way to breadcrumb link from the first location above to the second - maybe my request is make an obvious bread crumb link - or heck for less knowledgeable users how about a "hey you got too many redirects, would you like to try clearing the cookies for the site to resolve?" error message with single click (people complain about live.com infinite redirects over on the 'less technical' ms forums all the time....)

 

Or go kick a friend in the live.com auth team to make their product work 🙂 lol

  • HotCakeX's avatar
    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Dec 03, 2019
    Hi,
    there could be an extension causing this issue, happened to me before.
    also setting tracking prevention to strict can break some sites too.
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      alexbal
      Brass Contributor
      Dec 03, 2019

      HotCakeX thanks i deleted the cookies and that fixed, but next time it happens i will try disabling extensions (all i have running is the office extension - but that defintily plugs into live auth)

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