Howdy - I recently took up one of the lug'ers on their kind offer for a Gmail account. Using it right now, as a matter of fact.
Uncertain if it will become my email of preference, however. When I try to access from Opera 7.54 (under Win) identifying as MSIE, it barfs on no ActiveX being enabled. When I have it tell sites I'm Mozilla, it "loads" the page, but it is entirely blank. Anyone have a solution to this?
Later on, I'll boot into Linux and try Opera there but don't know what more to expect. If I cannot reach Gmail from Opera, I may find that to be a major problem as I am currently enjoying the latest version of Opera (with M2 working in both Win and Linux, with Prefs man-handled to use one common email location from both environments).
Thanks - Chris H.
I've found that about the only browser that I can use on gmail is Mozilla-1.7.2-r1 on Gentoo. I don't use windows for anything other then windows games. Gmail does not support Opera, don't know why.
Seems to me to be counter productive for gmail to restrict what browser one uses. One of the main reasons for webmail is to be able to get your mail anywhere on any system. Add to that they want you to use an piece of trash like IE. Sure it's nice to have 1Gig. I don't really see the point. 'course I've my own mail server, if I need more storage I add it. I think I've got about 3Gig free.
I got a gmail account so I'd be sure to have my chosen nickname reserved, and to see what all the hoopla is about. The interface is nice and the options are handy. Thing is Yahoo and Hotmail are just about as good and they work in Opera.
On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:02 am, Chris Hoelscher wrote:
Howdy - I recently took up one of the lug'ers on their kind offer for a Gmail account. Using it right now, as a matter of fact.
Uncertain if it will become my email of preference, however. When I try to access from Opera 7.54 (under Win) identifying as MSIE, it barfs on no ActiveX being enabled. When I have it tell sites I'm Mozilla, it "loads" the page, but it is entirely blank. Anyone have a solution to this?
Later on, I'll boot into Linux and try Opera there but don't know what more to expect. If I cannot reach Gmail from Opera, I may find that to be a major problem as I am currently enjoying the latest version of Opera (with M2 working in both Win and Linux, with Prefs man-handled to use one common email location from both environments).
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Sansavarous wrote:
Seems to me to be counter productive for gmail to restrict what browser one uses. One of the main reasons for webmail is to be able to get your mail anywhere on any system. Add to that they want you to use an piece of trash like IE. Sure it's nice to have 1Gig. I don't really see the point. 'course I've my own mail server, if I need more storage I add it. I think I've got about 3Gig free.
You say that like they just offhandedly decided to ignore Opera. The more complex and dynamic a web page is, the more difficult it is to get things up and running under different browsers. Gmail appears to be _very_ complex and _very_ dynamic. I don't think their IPO took in enough money to get Gmail working under IE, Mozilla _and_ Opera. :)
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