Hotmail “Reply” does not include the text of the incoming message

A friend of mine just wrote with an interesting problem:

I use Hotmail. Up until a week ago, when I forward, or reply, the original text in the incoming email shows up in the new email I’m about to write. Suddenly, last week, the text area on any email I wish to reply to, or forward, is blank! Any attachments are there, but no covering text.

Ends up that Roger hit a bug in Firefox 3.6. There’s a discussion about it on the Firefox support forum. Looks like you have three options: go back to version 3.5.7; use IE for your Hotmail; or wait for Mozilla to fix the bug.