Attachment feature locks up often preventing attachment of text, photos, etc.

Question

Attachment feature in email locks up in Firefox only. It happens after allowing one or more attachments sometimes and other times it happens on the first attempt to attach a doc, photo, etc. It does not happen with Internet Explorer so I often have to switch to it when attaching items. The size of the attachment doesn't seem to matter. I have used yahoo email for many years and have never had this problem with other browsers. I have the latest version of Firefox and have had this problem with the last 2 or 3 versions.

Answer 1

I can replicate the problem when I use the Attachments button and choose the Skydrive tab. For some reason, Microsoft is setting the width of the typed-in message text to 0, and I guess Firefox is stretching that to allow up to the width of one word.
I can't fix Hotmail, but I can give you a hack that resets the width (and height) to auto. You would run this after attaching the images, by clicking a button on your Bookmarks Toolbar.
(1) Copy the following line of code:
<br>javascript:var msgText = document.getElementById("appFrame").contentDocument.getElementById("contentFrame").contentDocument.getElementById("RichTextEditor_surface").contentDocument.getElementById("ecx_rte_preskyattach"); msgText.style.height = "auto"; msgText.style.width = "auto"; void 0;
(2) Right-click the Bookmarks Toolbar and choose New Bookmark
''If you do not normally display this toolbar, you can toggle it on using the View menu (Alt+v) or by right-clicking a blank area of the tab bar or menu bar''
(3) Paste the code in as the Location
(4) Name the bookmark as you wish (for example, FixHotmail)
Something more permanent could be created, but hopefully Microsoft will fix this and save us the trouble.