Error 409: Could not acquire the session semaphore in time. Please be patient.

This is an issue with the login when WebSphere Portal does not have Internet access. The “retrieving data” error message indicates that the portlets are not able to access the Internet, which is true since portal does not have access to the Internet. The initial /myportal page will not render until the sample portlets that need to get information from the internet experience a timeout. Therefore, you can do one of the following:

1. Remove the portlets from the page.
2. Deactivate the portlets on the page.
3. Enable the portal to access the Internet.

Looks like airtel uses Websphere Portal

Are you really bugged by the need to keep changing your browser proxy setting to access blocked sites ?FoxyProxy is the answer to all your proxy woes.

If you are using a proxy proxy.com to access all sites running on port 7777 then do the following :

1. Add proxy.com as proxy

2. Then for that proxy add a pattern like http://*:7777

3. Select “use proxies based on pattern”

Bingo, now all http access to port 7777 will be routed through proxy.com. If there is redirection involved, please add both the url patterns (the redirected to and redirected from) to that particular proxy.

Under Edit ->Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor set the following parameter

user_pref(“mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new”, true);

And if you don’t want the sending bar that pops up set the following parameter

user_pref(“mailnews.show_send_progress”, false);