So, web Outlook has had a bug with Single-Sign-On for many months now. It independently checks an own cookie, whether it should log you out, so it can happen that you log in via SSO and then it immediately triggers the logout flow of your SSO provider to log you back out.
Well, and when I say "can happen", I mean that this happens every single morning, unless I clear Outlook's cookies beforehand.
So, every morning before I start working, I hit Ctrl+Shift+H in Firefox to bring up the history, type "outlook" into the search, right-click an entry and then select "Forget About This Site" to clear the cookies.
Except, through the magic of doing this regularly, I've started typing just enough to make the Outlook entries appear at the top. Which isn't actually much shorter, but I noticed that I always just type "outloo".
Which sounds like a combination of "outhouse" and "loo". Which very much summarizes my feelings towards this Microsoft™ service, every time I have to do this. Which is every single morning. Fucking hell.
Exact same problem. It has been there for several years. Incognito mode is also a workaround. Do you know exactly which cookie it is? Maybe we can code a Firefox extension to remove it.
I'd guess, it's the authtoken cookie, since that has the right kind of expiry date for me and, well, makes sense from an OIDC perspective.
I might see, though, if the suggestion from @[email protected] maybe works. The Outlook webpage also redirects to outlook.cloud.microsoft since like, yesterday, which might've also unfucked things somehow? At least, I didn't get the logout loop, when I did try to test Alec's method just now.
would love to try anything. corporate is a microslop shill, so here we are.
I don't mind it really. when I'm asked why I'm not answering emails or going to meetings I tell them I haven't been getting emails or invites because outlook doesn't work.
either they'll let me install Linux and admin my own device, or they'll fire me and I can draw unemployment for a few months. it's a win/win.
I also use Thunderbird, but one of my clients forces us to use delegated mailboxes and that looks like a proprietary feature created by Microsoft to lock in customers.
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For whatever reason, outlook has been bugging me for a whole month, because it thinks it has an open dialogue box that doesn't exists.
The fix? Create a whole new profile.
Ok, i did what you suggested and created a new profile....
in linux!
I wish work would allow us to use Linux... I don't feel productive in windows...
Yeah that's a losing battle
Does Outlook for Linux support delegated mailboxes? My one client forces us to use those...
No idea. I don't use outlook on Linux. Depends also whether you use the legacy outlook or not
So, web Outlook has had a bug with Single-Sign-On for many months now. It independently checks an own cookie, whether it should log you out, so it can happen that you log in via SSO and then it immediately triggers the logout flow of your SSO provider to log you back out.
Well, and when I say "can happen", I mean that this happens every single morning, unless I clear Outlook's cookies beforehand.
So, every morning before I start working, I hit Ctrl+Shift+H in Firefox to bring up the history, type "outlook" into the search, right-click an entry and then select "Forget About This Site" to clear the cookies.
Except, through the magic of doing this regularly, I've started typing just enough to make the Outlook entries appear at the top. Which isn't actually much shorter, but I noticed that I always just type "outloo".
Which sounds like a combination of "outhouse" and "loo". Which very much summarizes my feelings towards this Microsoft™ service, every time I have to do this. Which is every single morning. Fucking hell.
Exact same problem. It has been there for several years. Incognito mode is also a workaround. Do you know exactly which cookie it is? Maybe we can code a Firefox extension to remove it.
Writing an extension to fix what Microslop won't. Peak! Love it.
I'd guess, it's the
authtokencookie, since that has the right kind of expiry date for me and, well, makes sense from an OIDC perspective.I might see, though, if the suggestion from @[email protected] maybe works. The Outlook webpage also redirects to
outlook.cloud.microsoftsince like, yesterday, which might've also unfucked things somehow? At least, I didn't get the logout loop, when I did try to test Alec's method just now.I've experienced similar but just hitting my back button in the browser seems to work
Of all the software I use daily, Outlook for desktop has been the most annoying and useless.
This made my laugh so hard. I've been having trouble with outlook recently.
I tried thunderbird's new exhange native, and then some of the paid thunderbird extensions but it looks like my school disables it.
would love to try anything. corporate is a microslop shill, so here we are.
I don't mind it really. when I'm asked why I'm not answering emails or going to meetings I tell them I haven't been getting emails or invites because outlook doesn't work.
either they'll let me install Linux and admin my own device, or they'll fire me and I can draw unemployment for a few months. it's a win/win.
I also use Thunderbird, but one of my clients forces us to use delegated mailboxes and that looks like a proprietary feature created by Microsoft to lock in customers.
I want to quit my job because of office 364. What a terrible service.
Office 364? Is it called that because it works for one day out of a year?
If you're lucky