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https://mail.google.com/mail/

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• Do not check the browser

  • I needed to do this for an old version of Konqueror.
• Delete your account

• Search operators you can use with Gmail

  • to:, from:, is:starred, etc, in the search field.

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• 2020-08-24 -- GMail requires poor SSL, confirmed on Android 10 on Umidigi Power 3 using FairEmail.
• 2019-02-17 -- I have YouTube comments emailed to my Gmail account. Today I found one put into my spam folder. It was not spam. It wasn't anything even close to spam.
• 2008-07-23 on (browser not recorded)

• 2008-07-16 on (browser not recorded)

  • There is an explicit reference to Firefox version 3 but I don't know if I exclusively used it with Firefox version 3.
  • Possibly 3.5
• 2007-07-16 on (browser not recorded)
• 2007-07 on (browser not recorded)
• 2006-01-09 -- It took me forever to realize that Gmail does indeed have a function to archive something when I'm looking at it in my inbox. They removed it from the dropdown function and had it as a button that was staring me in the face. It's still bad design to do that.. ugh!

• 2005-08-17 -- Gmail's hotkeys are nice once learned.. but who dreamed up u for "back"?

2008-07-23 ∞

So they alternately were and were not providing the "old version".

Now, they're just forcing Firefox 3 into basic mode. nocheckbrowser will just hang.

2008-07-16 ∞

Whoa, one year since my previous note.

Firefox 3 ∞

See also Firefox 3.5 is completely hopeless with AJAX and plugins  ^[ 1 ] 

Ok, so GMail and Firefox3 don't work together at all.

I used to get infinitely hanging messages, but it used to work with the "old version". That has now been completely removed and now the GMail website does not load anymore.

Instead, one is forced to use the "basic view", which sucks.

I think that this is solved by a workaround to make Firefox claim to be Internet Explorer. Strange that this would work considering I also tried the special URL to not do browser checking.

2007-07-16 ∞

Removing a label make the messages vanish ∞

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a new label
2. Send a message to yourself
3. When the message is received, flag it with the label you made and then archive it
4. Edit your list of labels

5. Delete the label

Now find your message. It's gone.

Solutions:

1. Randomly try to search for the missing messages. Good luck if you have tens of thousands of messages and don't know what to search for.
2. Download all your mail using pop3 access. Good luck finding the message. But at least you've got it somewhere.

3. GMail should implement an "archived" label of some kind.

3 seems to be the only reasonable solution.

2007-07 ∞

k eventually hangs the interface ∞

1. View a pagefull of starred messages
2. View the last one

3. Un-star it, use k to move to the last one.

Continue this process until you get to the last item..

You are kicked out of the email-view (which is normal) except the GMail interface has crashed and you cannot select anything. This is most likely because of the > symbol which appears to the left of the most recently-visited item. It's stick one line above the topmost item.

Last updated 2022-06-05 at 18:45:47

Footnotes

1. 2020-01-22 - This is likely a good starting place, but there were a lot of Firefox notes from back then.. - [↩]