Cannot Sign In To Gmail

Omkar™

Apr 9 2007, 04:08 AM

Just today morning I woke up longing for an expected mail in my Gmail mailbox. It wasn't in the Inbox, so I thought of checking the spam mail. But looks like it definitely isn't a great Monday morning for me!

When I try to sign in to Gmail, the browser just gets redirected a thousand times and ends up nowhere, still redirecting! There's no 'Loading' page or 'This seems to take longer than usual' page either. There is little internet activity (something around 1.5kBps). I really don't remember the last time I signed in to Webmail since I use POP3/SMTP with my favorite Email client and seldom need to see the site!

I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.3 and it works great for everything else (obviously, everything else does not include what I'm trying to accomplish!

) But I also tried logging in with the ol' IE 6 (It was quite an effort digging out the exe from the parent folder itself! I almost never switch to IE) : and its giving the same problem (Hurry! I was actually thankful IE didn't show signs of supremacy over Firefox!

)

But the problem remains, I still can't login to Gmail! Can anybody help me out and has anybody faced a similar problem?

Grafitti

Apr 9 2007, 10:27 AM

Yes, when the internet is really slow i have a hard time signing in. even if it finally loads the login page, it tries to load the page and if there isn't a decent even dialup connection, the it just goes in circles, if that much. But sooner or later it pops up the error message and asks you if you want to check it in basic html, and usually that works eventually... though it can still take a while. either that, or your ISP messed something up. it happens occasionally here, but they usually get it sorted out in a few hours.

Jeigh

Apr 9 2007, 11:18 AM

I know at my university, or at least in one building there, gmail and google have been hideously flakey the last 3-4 weeks. The internet would be working fine but upon trying to access either google primary or gmail itself it would often time out without warning. Since I forward all my emails into my gmail account you can imagine this is a pain in the butt.

Basically all I've done about it is be patient, trying to reload the page every minute or so usually it works after 3-5 tries. Obviously these could be unrelated issues but google has, in the past, been very very reliable so I would say just be patient and keep trying.

HellFire121

Apr 10 2007, 11:51 PM

Few things you could try, clear the cache or just keep refreshing the page until something shows up. Clearing the cache might or might not work. If clearing the cache doesn't work and the page doesn't seem to be getting anywhere best thing to do would be to just try again later, usually always fixes the problems.

-HellFire

pyost

Apr 11 2007, 08:18 AM

The same thing happened to me when I tried to sign in using Internet Explorer (don't ask why, spur of the moment) - just an infinite loading loop. When I tried the same thing with Firefox, it worked. So I guess you could try Opera as the last option

Mandi

Apr 20 2007, 04:08 PM

Try deleting your cookies

livingston

Apr 20 2007, 05:58 PM

Google has recently deleted several Gmail accounts that are reported to be used for spamming.

In the process of deleting these accounts, it has deleted several non-spamming accounts, I've read several people complaining in their blogs that they were not able to access their accounts.

So get in touch with Google GMail Support team if any of the above said methods by other memebers dosent work for you.

agentx

Apr 21 2007, 03:23 AM

Same thing has happened to me; I solved it by making a new account.

Soto

May 31 2007, 03:31 AM

I fail to see why people think firefox is such a great program. If IE had the features of firefox, it would most definatly be a greater web application then firefox is. Nothing against firefox but i dont see the point in download firefox if you have the latest IE version, as it allows tabs, which i think is the most useful feature of firefox.

Laurence

Jun 2 2007, 01:04 AM

QUOTE(Soto @ May 30 2007, 11:31 PM)

This may be off topic, but I have IE 7, and it does have pretty much all the features of FF, but I noticed that FF can load pages 10x faster than IE, and that's why I use it. Also there are tons of great plugins that are only made for FF.

I have multiple Gmail accounts one for when I sign up for things like forums and newsletters, and my personal account, and for some reason I think they deleted my non person email, because I can't log in too. My other email works fine though. I've contacted them but they haven't responded..

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iGuest

Nov 13 2008, 04:10 PM

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When I tried to open my gmail account,it started to redirct to https://,... A never ending web address appeared, and the computer was making noices, I used to be able to view my messages offline from a link, but now it dosn't do that anymore, so I just had to open a new Yahoo account, my business depends on email so much that I can't afford to loose my messages. Please tell me what to do now. Thanks!
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Jul 1 2008, 12:42 PM

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I GOT ASTONISHED ON TRYING TO ACCESS MY GMAIL ACCOUNT. UNFORTUNATELY SAME ERROR APPEARS TO ME THAT "THE PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED"

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iGuest

Jun 1 2008, 02:47 PM

I couldnt check my gmail because I cant sign in.What should I do??????

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gsawiris

Nov 30 2007, 07:28 AM

QUOTE(Sten @ Nov 12 2007, 10:07 AM)

gmail doesnt work on wii's anymore since they updated it. my brother has a wii and since gmail updated last week, the only time he can get on it is when it says the connection is slow and it gives you the option of viewing it in basic html.

gmail works fine on my computer though without problems.

same here…no solutions in this thread.
mail.google.com/mail/h works fine but not mail.google.com

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gsawiris

Nov 30 2007, 07:26 AM

QUOTE(Arbitrary @ Nov 21 2007, 06:19 AM)

You should probably try the older version of Gmail as FirefoxRocks says. Actually, though, I don't believe they put up the older version until a week or so ago, because before then I don't remember seeing that particular option.

I also didn't like Gmail's update a few weeks back. It caused Gmail to load a lot slower (though according to reports it was supposed to have loaded faster: gmail was trying to fix loading times...but apparently made it worse.). I wish they could still allow filter creation in Basic HTML. It's not as if I'll die without the Ajax in filter creations: I'm fine with a few extra clicks here and there since it actually saves me more time than Gmail realizes.

Does anyone know a way to force Gmail to load basic html without turning off javascript? (I do this through noscript--I just block google.com. Unfortunately, I don't want to block google.com (iGoogle won't work then...same with Google reader and notebook), I just want to block gmail.)