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Pale moon suddenly became compatible with gmail

Unread post by Lucio Chiappetti » 2021-11-07, 12:36

Our institutional e-mail is managed by Gsuite (paid version of gmail). I normally bypass that using fetchmail and using my old mail client. I login into gmail in a browser (namely Pale moon) only rarely (typically to tag a false positive as non-spam ... I thought this would be better than moving it via imap on my mail client, in the hope it will "learn"), and so far when entering via browser I was put in "basic HTML view" (fine for me).
Suddenly since yesterday gmail puts me in the "standard view" like it recognises Pale moon as a gmail-compatible browser (NB I did not change anything in Pale moon).
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Re: Pale moon suddenly became compatible with gmail

Unread post by Daikun » 2021-11-07, 13:51

I don't use Gsuite, so I wouldn't know how that works, but I've never had a problem accessing Gmail on PM.

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Re: Pale moon suddenly became compatible with gmail

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-11-07, 14:22

For the record, I've never had any issue accessing GMail's "normal" web interface either. Basic HTML has only been a thing when I was on super slow wifi
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Re: Pale moon suddenly became compatible with gmail

Unread post by Pentium4User » 2021-11-07, 14:49

The normal GMail interface worked, but it was really slow on actual hardware. I also remember that I saw some messages that the browser isn't compatible, but I can't check that anymore, I don't have a Google account anymore.
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Re: Pale moon suddenly became compatible with gmail

Unread post by Tomaso » 2021-11-07, 15:56

Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
2021-11-07, 12:36
Suddenly since yesterday gmail puts me in the "standard view"
Yeah, after recent changes, Google now refuses to let you save the basic HTML layout as default.
As a workaround, people can use this login link (with certain parameters):

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

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Re: Pale moon suddenly became compatible with gmail

Unread post by Lucio Chiappetti » 2021-11-07, 22:00

Thanks, the last post seems the explanation.
BTW, of course I was not blaming Pale moon for any "incompatibility". Simply I was used to the "basic HTML" look since ages (for the rare times I use it, to tag false positives as no spam) both on the work desktop, on the slow laptop I was using at home in the past, as well on the new home desktop which is newer and faster than the work one, and I was surprised by the change to the "standard HTML" without my intervention. Since the documentation by Google says that "basic HTML" is used on what they consider not compatible browsers, I thought they'd revised their classification.
Apparently the note on the page bottom which allows to toggle between standard and basic view is no longer present by default (something flashes on the screen but disappears before one can click on it). Apparently the alternate URLs used to force basic view do not operate on the custom URL used by Gsuite for my organization.
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