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nachtigall · 2018-09-26 01:26:39

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

TheCoelacanth | karma 7988 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2021-03-11 03:45:19+00:00

You've obviously never tried GMail in Firefox, though that's probably intentional.

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.)

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

So how does Gmail do it with other browsers?

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.

squid_ca | karma 169 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2012-12-10 17:03:55+00:00

Gmail is working for me in FireFox. In Chrome, it is still crashing.

dingdingdang | karma 1015 | avg karma 2.45 · | 2017-08-01 20:33:05

Routinely have similar issues with gmail/chrome whereas I never have any issues on Firefox. Odd.

b0afc375b5 | karma 616 | avg karma 2.41 · | 2023-03-15 05:59:22

Admittedly I only use the gmail web client for viewing email and not much else, but I have never had issues with gmail on firefox. What problems are you experiencing?

Fedoranimus | karma 5 | avg karma 0.62 · | 2018-12-04 09:07:51

Gmail is pretty slow in Firefox no matter what.

thedance | karma 613 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2020-02-26 16:58:23+00:00

I don't why people bother with claims like these are are trivially disproven. Anybody reading this can open up Firefox and go to Gmail and see for themselves that it works perfectly well (FF 73, Gmail frontend gmail_fe_200213.13_p5). So whatever your problem is with gmail is either imaginary or caused by some other software you've inflicted on yourself.

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.

berdario | karma 985 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2016-01-11 07:31:53+00:00

This is the crux of the issue.

Gmail itself is unusable on Android + Firefox. When using an alternative browser you'll also stumble in problems with plenty of Android apps: Slack, Citymapper, etc... (when opening a web page intent, they expect that the only app that'll receive that will be Chrome)

The situation isn't as bad for desktop browsers, but it's depressing how things can still be broken.

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sp332 | karma 55607 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2018-09-28 18:40:35+00:00

I've been using GMail since 2004 and I'm not having any trouble, even in Firefox.

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.

lucb1e | karma 17323 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2018-09-24 01:18:20

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

racuna | karma 21 | avg karma 0.84 · | 2019-04-26 14:25:46+00:00

Gmail works awful on Firefox (slow, heavy memory usage, etc).

Some things are fixed in the last releases of FF, but according of what I read recently, Google is doing this on purpose.

Any addon or userscript recommended?

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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.

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.

grive | karma 783 | avg karma 4.35 · | 2018-09-24 08:42:20+00:00

Google uses non-standard extensions that only Chrome supports for Gmail and Youtube.

For neutral email apps, Firefox runs perfectly fine. For Gmail, it will be slightly slower than Chrome.

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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.