Comments on: Gmail problems with Firefox

Question: Gmail problems with Firefox

flowerofhighrank — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:19:15 -0800

why won't Firefox auto-open a new message to send in Gmail when I click on an email address?

It used to work just fine- click and boom! I'm sending mail. Now, I just get "Loading..." forever. It's a small thing, I know, but I got spoiled by the whole 'boom' thing. I'm on a Mac with 10.4. Any suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated.

By: artdrectr

artdrectr — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:38:01 -0800

It's Gmail bug, Firefox isn't the problem (same thing is happening in Safari). And Gmail Notifier no longer works for a lot of folks. Haven't seen any fixes yet on the boards.

By: artdrectr

artdrectr — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:39:51 -0800

Oh, in Gmail Settings > General, try switching to English (UK).

By: flowerofhighrank

flowerofhighrank — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:00:45 -0800

UK english did it! Thanks!

By: raygan

raygan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:25:28 -0800

I had this exact same problem. What a weird bug! Thanks for the fix!

By: qvtqht

qvtqht — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:25:49 -0800

It probably has something to do with the Gmail trademark dispute in the UK.

By: jon4009

jon4009 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:29:15 -0800

When you switch it to English (UK) you get the older, non-broken version of Gmail... Google tests out their bleeding-edge stuff on the US market first and then rolls them out to the other languages over time.

You can achieve the same thing by leaving your language as US English and simply clicking the "Older Version" link in the top right corner of the page.

By: zepheria

zepheria — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:40:30 -0800

Artdrctr, Gmail Notifier stopped working after my last update too, but I switched to Google Notifier for Mac and that works.

By: artdrectr

artdrectr — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:13:36 -0800

zepheria: thanks. works now.