Bug 152188

Summary:	New version of Gmail doesn't work in Konqueror
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Joe Kowalski <joekowalski>
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jay, meldroc
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Joe Kowalski 2007-11-12 00:27:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 4.1.2 
OS:                Linux

Google has released a new version of Gmail that has an overhauled javascript codebase. This new code doesn't work in konqueror. It shows the "Loading" word and then konq gets stuck.  This may not be visible to everyone yet as the new version hasn't been rolled out to all servers yet.

Comment 1 Joe Kowalski 2007-11-12 01:05:37 UTC

A work around for the time being is to force gmail to use the old code with the url mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1 . Note the "?ui=1" at the end of the url. This work around probably won't be available forever though since it's likely that google will drop this option.

Comment 2 Allan Sandfeld 2007-11-27 14:23:00 UTC

Also you can spoof as "Firefox 1.0". Only newer version of Firefox are supported by the new interface

Comment 3 Javier Jardon 2008-02-06 20:10:32 UTC

Same here. Kubuntu 7.10 with KDE 4.0.1 

If you go to http://mail.google.com/mail?nocheckbrowser

Comment 4 Rafael F. Compte 2008-05-20 20:07:49 UTC

The new version of Gmail is unusable with Konqueror in Kubuntu Hardy (3.5.9). "Browser not supported" Forcing Google to ignore browser isn't useful since it doesn't really work. It freezes and misbehaves. An easy workaround is to use the old version. But as Joe said above, Google will drop that option any time

Comment 5 Jay LaCroix 2008-09-10 00:24:26 UTC

KDE 4.1.1 here, with both Intrepid and Hardy, Gmail STILL doesn't work on either.

Comment 6 meldroc 2009-01-22 19:11:18 UTC

Tested with 4.2 RC1 - still does not work correctly with newest, coolest Gmail.  I have to go to Browser Identification and tell Konqueror to lie and tell Gmail the browser is Mozilla 1.7.3 to get the older Gmail interface that works.

Comment 7 meldroc 2009-01-22 19:13:45 UTC

Oh, and you can reproduce all the problems with the newest Gmail by going to Browser Identification and telling Konqueror to lie and tell Google we're using Firefox 2.0.0.8.

Comment 8 Justin Zobel 2021-03-21 00:25:56 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 10 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

Comment 9 Christoph Cullmann 2024-05-06 18:39:48 UTC

Dear user,

KHTML (and KJS) was a long time more or less unmaintained and got removed in KF6.

Please migrate to use a QWebEngine based HTML component.

We will do no further fixes or improvements to the KF5 branches of these components beside important security fixes.

For security issues, please see:

https://kde.org/info/security/

Sorry that we did not fix this issue during the life-time of KHTML.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann