{"id":2024,"date":"2012-07-29T12:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2012-07-29T12:29:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T11:29:18","slug":"gmail-never-loads-in-firefox-cookies-cleared-still-get-a-blank-screen-try-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2012\/07\/29\/gmail-never-loads-in-firefox-cookies-cleared-still-get-a-blank-screen-try-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail NEVER LOADS in Firefox? Cookies cleared, still get a blank screen? Try this…"},"content":{"rendered":"

After trying 4 or 5 things from this several-years-old page on Firefox’s support forums<\/a>, I finally hit upon one that worked:<\/p>\n

\n“For the heck of it tonight I clicked on Gmail in my calendar and it finally went to my gmail inbox.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my case, I just went to Google Groups, and clicked the Gmail link from the top navbar. Lo and behold – it works!<\/p>\n

(this is after a week of having no way to access Gmail from my main web browser)<\/p>\n

Why?<\/h4>\n

Looking at the problems other people have had, my guess is that Google’s code for running Gmail has some illegal (i.e. breaks-the-standard) bits in there that try to get around the browser standards by doing silly things with caching. Some of those are … fragile, perhaps … and tend to break easily. Over time, Google has added more and more unnecessary “features” to that code (e.g. I often have to wait for “connecting to google chat”, even though I have google chat permanently disabled and will never EVER use it) … there’s a *lot* of code in there these days; lots that could go wrong!<\/p>\n

Normally, a Refresh of a page would fix this – that’s how the WWW was designed in the first place, as a core feature – but Google’s (my guess) playing so fast-and-loose that they’re *also* (deliberately? or accidentally?) bypassing the refresh. I can imagine several well-meaning reasons they might do that, but in the end I’d rather they stuck to the standards, instead of creating these “breaks permanently” problems for people.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there’s no Google support for this problem. Once it strikes you, GOOD LUCK! (you’ll need it)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After trying 4 or 5 things from this several-years-old page on Firefox’s support forums, I finally hit upon one that worked: “For the heck of it tonight I clicked on Gmail in my calendar and it finally went to my gmail inbox.” In my case, I just went to Google Groups, and clicked the Gmail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}