Can't sign out of Hotmail

As of yesterday when I try to sign out of Hotmail I get a message that says "sign out failed" because I do not have 3rd party cookies enabled - using FF ver. 3.5.4 and have never had 3rd party cookies enabled

Have NO idea where this came from - have done nothing to computer

Works fine in IE8, and NO problems with G-mail or Yahoo sign outs

Any ideas - anyone

Thanks

Joe

 

OK, after doing some research on this, and finding very little, I believe this is a M$ / Windows Live ID / Hotmail problem, NOT a Firefox problem - FF ver. 3.5.5 (not 3.5.4 as stated in prior post)

The page that comes up when clicking on the "sign-out" tab in Hotmail now takes me to a "Windows Live ID" page, there it states:
1 - Could not sign you out, browser blocking 3rd party cookies
2 - Close all browser windows to sign out
3 - Enable 3rd party cookies to prevent this from happening again
Try again or Done are next choices

If I select try again - same message

If I select Done - the next page I see is the MSN page I used to get when I clicked on the "sign-out" tab in Hotmail - and it appears I am signed out, because if I close out and go back to my home page then go back to Hotmail I am NOT already signed in, I have to sign in as usual -

As stated prior, there are work arounds, just would like to know why this happened - is M$ trying to force 3rd party cookies ??

I have run ALL my maintenance programs and found nothing -

Your thoughts please -

Thanks

Joe

 

see this link

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/hotmail_cookies/

 

Thank you, TheRedGuy

Joe