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i have done everything listed here so many times and nothing is fixing this. Made sure cookies were enabled, cleared cache and cookies, made sure Gmail was approved in security settings, and then as a last ditch effort, I disabled all add-ons for Firefox and still no Gmail... I was so desperate that I even re-installed ff-19 and still cannot get into my email account. What is going on here? Any help or small nudge in the correct direction would be much appreciated!
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there are a few other threads that cover this issue - however no single clear solution/cause of the problem is apparent after going through them - maybe you can try some of the steps other users reported working nevertheless: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/950400 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/944943
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hello Jessarie, please go through all steps mentioned in Websites say cookies are blocked - Unblock them (in particular step #2 - but be aware this will also remove all google passwords you have stored in the password manager).
hi philipp... thanks for responding so fast!
I did twice and still no Gmail. I even used a file cleaning program to remove all the temporary files on my system... any other ideas?
could you go to firefox > help > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of the page & paste it into a forum reply here - maybe this will provide some more clues...
please also make sure that no external security/privacy software is interfering with the cookie management in firefox.
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...and Norton is set to allow firefox cookies as determined by user
thanks, can you try to replicate this problem when you launch firefox in safe mode once?
Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems
I am able to open gmail.com and log into my account if Firefox is in Private Browsing mode.
can you specify again if it's working in safe mode (as suggested above) or in a private browsing window (which is a different mode).
in the first case i'd have a further look into your extensions. for example you could add a whitelist-rule for google.com in the ghostery addon...
In "Safe Mode" I can NOT get logged in.
In a "Private Browsing Window" I CAN get logged in.
does it make a difference when you go to firefox > help > troubleshooting information, click on profile folder/show folder and close all firefox windows afterwards. a windows explorer window should open up - in there rename the file named permissions.sqlite - it will be regenerated again the next time you launch the browser.
no change after renaming file... still unable to get to log in page
Solusi Terpilih
there are a few other threads that cover this issue - however no single clear solution/cause of the problem is apparent after going through them - maybe you can try some of the steps other users reported working nevertheless: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/950400 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/944943
I used the same thing used in the first link 950400...
Firefox > Options > Options > Privacy > remove individual cookies > typed google > remove all cookies > typed gmail > remove all cookies
restarted Firefox and now I can log into gmail...
ok great, thanks for reporting back with your findings!