Gmail problems with Firefox

February 4, 2008 1:19 AM

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.

posted by flowerofhighrank to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

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.
posted by artdrectr at 1:38 AM on February 4, 2008

Best answer: Oh, in Gmail Settings > General, try switching to English (UK).
posted by artdrectr at 1:39 AM on February 4, 2008

Response by poster: UK english did it! Thanks!
posted by flowerofhighrank at 2:00 AM on February 4, 2008

I had this exact same problem. What a weird bug! Thanks for the fix!
posted by raygan at 6:25 AM on February 4, 2008

It probably has something to do with the Gmail trademark dispute in the UK.
posted by qvtqht at 7:25 AM on February 4, 2008

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.
posted by jon4009 at 9:29 AM on February 4, 2008

Artdrctr, Gmail Notifier stopped working after my last update too, but I switched to Google Notifier for Mac and that works.
posted by zepheria at 9:40 AM on February 4, 2008

zepheria: thanks. works now.
posted by artdrectr at 12:13 AM on February 6, 2008