Problems with the new "improved" Google

I know that this is not the proper forum for this question, and I apologize but I really didn't know where else to ask it. I'm really frustrated. I have tried the usual "support" pages at Google and Firefox and found them to be of no support at all. I use Firefox to access my Gmail account. Up until just the otheer day I would connect and then click on my Google icon, (looks like a small orange planet). That would bring up the Google home page with a little Gmail icon. I would click on the icon, and except for every so often when it would ask me for my login name and password, it would usually take me right to my inbox. There was also an option to load a stripped down version of Gmail for people with slow connections. And my dialup service definitely qualifies for that. All this was a great time saver, usually getting me into my inbox in less than 30 seconds.

Now for whatever reason the Google screen has changed, there is no more Gmail icon and now it takes forever jumping from one useless Google screen to the next to try to get to my inbox. This is a real pain in the ass now. Can anyone please help me to somehow duplicate what I had before? It was great to just click on the icon and have it take me right to my inbox. I need to say I don't use anything but email so I don't need any other Google features, Apps, or whatever else is now standing in my way. The old system was simple, like me. That's what I need. Thanks, Lenny

 

[N_Cook]

On 06/11/2013 18:30, captainvideo462009@gmail.com wrote:

I know that this is not the proper forum for this question, and I apologize but I really didn't know where else to ask it. I'm really frustrated. I have tried the usual "support" pages at Google and Firefox and found them to be of no support at all. I use Firefox to access my Gmail account. Up until just the otheer day I would connect and then click on my Google icon, (looks like a small orange planet). That would bring up the Google home page with a little Gmail icon. I would click on the icon, and except for every so often when it would ask me for my login name and password, it would usually take me right to my inbox. There was also an option to load a stripped down version of Gmail for people with slow connections. And my dialup service definitely qualifies for that. All this was a great time saver, usually getting me into my inbox in less than 30 seconds.

Now for whatever reason the Google screen has changed, there is no more Gmail icon and now it takes forever jumping from one useless Google screen to the next to try to get to my inbox. This is a real pain in the ass now. Can anyone please help me to somehow duplicate what I had before? It was great to just click on the icon and have it take me right to my inbox. I need to say I don't use anything but email so I don't need any other Google features, Apps, or whatever else is now standing in my way. The old system was simple, like me. That's what I need. Thanks, Lenny

I use the other Mozilla product , Thunderbird , to access usenet and a
gmail account, avoiding all the Java crap on Google via Firefox browser.

 

[Leif Neland]

Efter mange tanker skrev captainvideo462009@gmail.com:

I know that this is not the proper forum for this question, and I apologize
but I really didn't know where else to ask it. I'm really frustrated. I have
tried the usual "support" pages at Google and Firefox and found them to be of
no support at all. I use Firefox to access my Gmail account.

Have tried typing "gmail.com" in the addressfield on your browser?

I usually just have to type "g" before it suggest gmail.com
"go" to get to google.com
"e" to my favorite newspaper
"s" for slashdot

You can also setup firefox to start multiple tabs with the favorites
you want.

K.I.S.S.

Leif

--
Husk křrelys bagpĺ, hvis din bilfabrikant har taget den idiotiske
beslutning at undlade det.

 

ou really shouldn't have to load the stripped down version on Firefox.

any way you go though, eventually you wil get to tha tinbox. Simply go up to add favorites or add to bookmarks and do that.

My google has not changed so somehow you let an update through. It happens. Of course maybe it was an "update" from one of google's competitors that will fuck up google. Don't put shit like that past them.

Lenny, Ima tellya, system restore isa you friend.

when did the problem happen ? Resote back to a date before that. It cures 99% of all viruses and spyware and shit. Of course some survive but you know I havebeen rinning without an AV program for well over ten years. Of course I am not na average user and I do not recommend others run bareback like me.

Thing is, some AV programs will resist a system restore and cause the exact problems they are supposed to cure. there is alot to it. Some shit you have to TURN OFF system restore. then reboot some times and then switch it back, I think., It was one certain thing, which by the way was not curable by McAffe or Norton. you had to follow the instructu=ions evenif you had all that shit.

What OS you running over there ? Let's see, you walked with the dinosaurs right ? If I'm not mistaken not only did you teach Joshua bar Joseph his carpentry skills, you learned them from Moses. you are the last living person who really knows how big a cubit is. (I know, dangling participle, I LOVE doing that, rephrase it then if you are so fucking good ! lol)

Anyway, sometimes you have to go into safemode to get a restore to work right, I guess I kinda understand why. If you cannot get into safemode, or do the restore or it doesn't work just come on back.

We'll take it to the next level of debauchery on your OS. By the way, what is the OS and other specs of your Edsel over there ?

 

[dave]

On 11/06/2013 10:30 AM, captainvideo462009@gmail.com wrote:

I know that this is not the proper forum for this question, and I apologize but I really didn't know where else to ask it. I'm really frustrated. I have tried the usual "support" pages at Google and Firefox and found them to be of no support at all. I use Firefox to access my Gmail account. Up until just the otheer day I would connect and then click on my Google icon, (looks like a small orange planet). That would bring up the Google home page with a little Gmail icon. I would click on the icon, and except for every so often when it would ask me for my login name and password, it would usually take me right to my inbox. There was also an option to load a stripped down version of Gmail for people with slow connections. And my dialup service definitely qualifies for that. All this was a great time saver, usually getting me into my inbox in less than 30 seconds.

Now for whatever reason the Google screen has changed, there is no more Gmail icon and now it takes forever jumping from one useless Google screen to the next to try to get to my inbox. This is a real pain in the ass now. Can anyone please help me to somehow duplicate what I had before? It was great to just click on the icon and have it take me right to my inbox. I need to say I don't use anything but email so I don't need any other Google features, Apps, or whatever else is now standing in my way. The old system was simple, like me. That's what I need. Thanks, Lenny

The G-meisters do whatever possible to mess with Firefox. Look in the
lower left corner and see what the browser is waiting for. It's usually
a GOOG application, spot server, ads, etc.

Surrender to the Borg. At least you can easily turn off the snooping in
Chrome. Cheers.

 

Hey I meant no offense with that dinosaur shit.......

I am almost as bad, and I get the feeling that soon I will be......

 

Hey Jurb
Well actually you're close, but in the wrong Millennium. I think that most of my equipment came over with Columbus. Most of it were cast offs from people who needed the latest and greatest of whatever and now might be considered paper weights by today's standards, but the good news is that the price was right. My oldest is a 586 which runs 98 and all my customer files in DOS 6.2.22, etc. I don't go on the Internet with that one anymore. This computer is a Dell 600M laptop with XP on dialup. That's why these extra useless steps to get into Gmail are a real pain in the ass. I do like the Thunderbird idea and also the "going back to a kinder gentler time" idea too. I've done that restore before, (don't know if I've ever done it on XP though) in the past and it has worked. And as far as that Dinosaur stuff, I hear this shit from my kids all the time,"Dad, get with the program", and things like "did they have electricity when you were born"?. So I'm fairly used to people marveling, (or shaking their heads) at my antiques. I tape all my TV programs off my antenna and I just picked up two 2400.00 commercial VCR's from a cable TV station for 2 bucks. And they probably think that I got fucked. So don't worry about offending me with dinosaur comments. We've both been on this group a long time. I know where you're coming from. I have a sense of humor. So does my wife. She married me. There was no offense taken. Lenny

 

[hrhofmann@sbcglobal.net]

I use the system restore function about once every 3 or 4 months to clear up some mysterious thing that seems to be causing problems. I have XP pro on my machine. THe restore seems to be easy enough to do, and usually clears the malfunction right up.