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lucb1e · 2018-09-24 01:18:20

What does email have to do with switching browsers? Last I heard Gmail also works on Firefox.

astura | karma 9774 | avg karma 1.97 · | 2018-11-01 05:28:24+00:00

Fwiw, I use Gmail exclusively in Firefox and have no problems at all. (And my machines are fairly dated.)

adrianpike | karma 1055 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2013-12-28 04:56:04

Is there a reason browser-based doesn't work for you? I moved to gmail only a few years ago and haven't looked back.

stefano | karma 1435 | avg karma 4.98 · | 2018-09-23 20:49:15+00:00

Firefox, Edge, Safari, pretty much all non-chromium browsers are compatible with gmail.

nachtigall | karma 5017 | avg karma 14.09 · | 2018-09-26 01:26:39

Does gmail really not work in another browser like Firefox? Seriously? How is this possible?

frandroid | karma 4293 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2014-07-02 04:11:05

So how does Gmail do it with other browsers?

AlchemistCamp | karma 4842 | avg karma 2.48 · | 2020-10-18 14:09:31+00:00

Huh? I've been using Firefox almost exclusively for five years and have been a gmail user the entire time.

Jugurtha | karma 3589 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2018-09-28 22:31:33+00:00

If I may ask, is there a reason you are using Gmail in your browser instead of a mail client?

uulbiy | karma 111 | avg karma 2.13 · | 2012-05-06 15:10:25+00:00

I used to get the gmail message all the time with firefox on linux. My solution was to use chromium for gmail and firefox for the rest.

acranox | karma 650 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2018-02-14 01:24:34

On top of that, it will only work well in Gmail on Chrome. Gmail on Firefox is already kind of a shitty experience, it will only get worse.

rchaud | karma 15048 | avg karma 2.21 · | 2019-05-28 15:10:58

On OSX, Firefox and Google Drive work fine, but Gmail is a whole other kettle of fish. I don't know what UI change they implemented last year or so, but it is nearly unusable on Firefox, from absurdly long load times, to a 2-3 second wait for contextual options to appear when you right click.

Switched to ProtonMail's free tier and will gradually migrate everything there aside from newsletter and software beta signups. Those emails are mostly trash anyway.

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SwiftyBug | karma 948 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2022-01-11 09:25:22

That called my attention too. Does that mean Firefox runs code specifically on Gmail?

bad_user | karma 29557 | avg karma 3.94 · | 2018-12-04 14:13:37+00:00

For personal email I'm on FastMail, but my work email is still Gmail (not my choice). I found Gmail to behave like shit in Firefox.

Then I tried it in Chrome and found that Gmail behaves like shit in Chrome too.

The solution however was to drop Gmail's web interface. Switched to a desktop client. If you're on MacOS I think MailMate is the best.

Couldn't be happier. And this advice is independent of your browser choice.

PS: the fact that Google's online properties are optimized for Chrome should make you realize that Chrome is the new IExplorer and it's our fault for allowing it to happen ;-)

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mahrain | karma 432 | avg karma 3.11 · | 2011-07-01 15:31:04+00:00

This may actually have me switch to using a site-specific browser for gmail instead of mail.app!

tobtoh | karma 2537 | avg karma 8.21 · | 2018-10-04 04:17:21+00:00

As someone who recently switched back to Firefox, I've come to realise how many of these useful Gmail addons are strictly limited to Chrome only.

Firefox has been terrific for everything else, but it's surprised me how much functionality I've built into Gmail through addons and how it's almost a showstopper for me migrating to Firefox.

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jzawodn | karma 655 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2015-04-17 13:50:38

I wonder if this is why I've been having weird stalls and intermittent failures using GMail the last few weeks. Every time, I try it in Firefox or Safari and it works perfectly.

criddell | karma 19148 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2017-09-29 20:13:32

I was actually thinking about switching to Chrome because of GMail (or rather Inbox). When I open Inbox in Firefox, it can take 20 to 30 seconds for the cursor to stop spinning and I have a 300 Mbps connection.

Oompa | karma 2219 | avg karma 5.66 · | 2008-07-08 04:02:11

"We are in the process of rolling this feature out to the latest version of Gmail, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer 7."

They are, they're rolling it out to the latest version of Gmail. I'm sure they mentioned Firefox and Internet Explorer 7, since most people that use Gmail use those two browsers, unless Safari doesn't get the latest version of Gmail.

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jfk13 | karma 7151 | avg karma 3.74 · | 2019-08-21 09:36:45

I use Gmail, but through Thunderbird and occasionally Firefox. Works pretty well for me. I keep Chrome around mainly for occasional compatibility testing.

rosser | karma 21327 | avg karma 5.98 · | 2017-03-11 05:25:54+00:00

Oh, I know it's Gmail, not the browser. But I have just a hair under 14,000 unread messages in my Gmail box (I use it primarily for mailing list subscriptions), so switching to a desktop client would be ... painful at this point.