<OT> gmail invites for grabs

Alma J Wetzker almaw
Fri Sep 3 22:17:04 PDT 2004


Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2004 03:27 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>
>>>On Friday 03 September 2004 02:47 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Friday 03 September 2004 12:44 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Today 12:44:01 pm
>>>>>>
>>>>>>user error.  I mistyped your email address and the invitation
>>>>>>bounced back to me.  I've fwd it to you again.  Let me know if you
>>>>>>fail to receive it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Got it.   Gmail is telling me my browser isn't compatible.  I'm using
>>>>>mozilla 1.6.   Eh?
>>>>
>>>>hrmm, i dunno. they might require 1.7.  i haven't used 1.6 in a very
>>>>long (i'm using the 1.8a series rightnow) time, so i can't really test
>>>>this.
>>>
>>>I tried opera and it also claimed it didn't support my browser.....  
>>>until I turned off privoxy.  Now it's ok.
>>>
>>>But turning off privoxy in moz 1.6 still gives me a blank screen when
>>>going to gmail.
>>
>>do you have javascript disabled?  or are you behind some other kind of
>>proxy server?  i've noticed that gmail won't work at all if javascript
>>isn't working, and tends to behave strangely behind some firewalls & proxy
>>servers.
> 
> 
> Gmail is still complaining about both moz and opera.  I had opera identifying 
> that it was MSIE 6.0 but then gmail wanted  activeX.  Setting it to moz 3.0 
> and it doesn't like it.
> 
> With both browsers now, all I get is a blank screen at gmail.google.com/gmail
> 
> What browsers are other people using?

I use Moz 1.6.  No problems.

     -- Alma


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