Konqueror vs. Firefox -- Accessing Gmail -- Success!

[Dotan Cohen]

On 13/04/07, Robert Tilley <tilleyrw at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 04:54:22 pm Robert Tilley wrote:
> > Is there something different about the Konqueror build for Kubuntu?
> >
> > I can access Google Gmail easily with the standards-compliant Firefox while
> > Konqueror simply chokes and dies.  I thought Konqueror was standards
> > compliant and even passed the ACID2 test for page rendering.
> >
> > Is it's ability to run scripts/AJAX inferior to Firefox's?  This is an
> > honest question to determine the source of the issue.
>
> I set Konqueror to identify itself to gmail.com as "Mozilla 1.7.3 on Windows
> XP" and Gmail began working.  (At least, it displays correctly.  I still need
> to test all the functionality...)
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Bob

Try using this link:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?nocheckbrowser

This way you can browse Gmail without changing your UA. Get Konqi in
those logs, and maybe Gmail will start supporting it officially.

Dotan Cohen

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