On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 14 May 2012 16:57:28 Sven Joachim wrote:
> > >> Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately.
> > >
> > > This is something that can be reported, should the error is consistent
> > > and fully reproducible.
> >
> > AFAIK this is already known, and the problem is not the small difference
> > between Iceweasel and Firefox, but rather that Google (and several other
> > sites) have dropped support for Firefox 3.5 which is the base for
> > Iceweasel in Squeeze.
> 
> I have the impression, which may indeed be erroneous, that Google has 
> deliberately obsoleted Iceweasel in order to push its users into Chrome or 
> chromium.  Though I imagine that it will still play ball with IE.
> 
> This happened when they "updated"/"improved" Gmail.
> 

I also have that impression.
Forunately, it still works just fine with imap via mutt and also 
in elinks and in Opera as well, for those occasions one must access 
gmails settings dialog. Best of all, elinks and Opera don't 
require updating every four minutes to avoid being pwned.
An important factor for those of us with extremely limited bandwidth.... 

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