# Bing and my inaccessible home page- help **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 2, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848 "2013-03-02T21:05:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/1 "2013-03-02T21:05:04Z")
So I use [MSN.com](http://MSN.com) as my home page (don’t judge me!). Never had a problem until late yesterday, but now when I try to get to [msn.com](http://msn.com), either through the home icon or typing in [msn.com](http://msn.com), it just goes to a blank page- not a Bing search page or anything, just nothing, but in the browser bar (Firefox) is the Bing icon and [msn.com](http://msn.com). I have tried typing in about:config and changing all Bing references to google, but that didn’t work. I went into my control panel and programs to see if I could uninstall anything to do with Bing, but there’s nothing Bing-y there. I don’t know what else to do, but I want [msn.com](http://msn.com) back, and I want it now. Help. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/2 "2013-03-02T21:29:05Z")
Well, doing more of a search about the problem, it seems that people all over the place are unable to connect to [msn.com](http://msn.com) today. I see a lot of references to it being an IE10 problem, but I don’t use that, so I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/3 "2013-03-03T01:36:21Z")
Maybe [msn.com](http://msn.com) just went down for a while. It happens, even for major web sites like that. It’s their problem, not yours. I can get to it now, but I expect you can too. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/4 "2013-03-03T03:07:02Z")
MSN seems to be down. At least it’s routing me over to Bing. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/5 "2013-03-03T05:52:58Z")
It still works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Coup\_Fourre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@Coup\_Fourre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coup_Fourre)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/6 "2013-03-03T12:04:09Z")
Still isn’t working for me this AM. I use Google Chrome as my browser. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/7 "2013-03-03T12:29:43Z")
[downforeveryoneorjustme](http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Msn.com) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bing-and-my-inaccessible-home-page-help/651848/8 "2013-03-03T17:20:40Z")
Now it’s that if I clear my cookies, I can access [msn.com](http://msn.com) for the rest of the day. I don’t know that much about cookies, but I don’t really want to have to clear them daily to get to my homepage. Gah.