sorry i didn't know where else this belonged since it has to do with tech news sort of.
does anyone know if gmail works for them?? i need to get on to get a username and password i just registered for. i get a message saying the connection was refused?? help

You can't log in? Do you want me to send you an invite?

^ i thought anyone could sign up now? as in you don't need an invite?

it works for me, i've been using it for about 4 months...

i have an account, but the page where you log in doesn't appear. i get an error message. it worked fine a few days ago.

i didn't know you didn't need invites anymore? cause i still have plenty..

Try and get the Gmail notifier.....if that desn't work then just wait....

Clear your cookies. (Tools > Internet Options/Options.)

did that. didn't work.

Maybe it's something to do with your active X controls, javascript, or something? My school macintoshes won't let me log onto GMail. My boyfriend's ibook wouldn't let him either but he did something and I guess he allowed the actrive x controls and whatnot, and now I can get on gmail from there.

how would i go to configure the active x controls though? i recently upgraded my firefox, maybe that's it? but i didn't change any options or preferences or anything when i had the old version.

hmm.. Dunno cause it's a different browser. Go to..

Internet options > Security > Custom Level and have it so that it downloads signed active x controls.. or something? Dunno. My boyfriend has firefox but we cna still get on gmail. I coudl be wrong lol. But hopefully it'll work for you. Good luck! :]

Just a though, at the top of the screen does it say it requires additional plug-ins to properly view the site?

that's for IE. sorry, i don't have that option for firefox.


oh, for that, i get a little symbol, but it doesn't show anything because i usually go to google then type in gmail and click i'm feeling lucky. a new pages doesn't load or anything.

Well... perhaps you should type in gmail.google.com or www.gmail.com next time. Clicking "I'm feeling lucky" just makes it so it chooses a random link.

it doesn't choose a random link, it automatically goes to the first link in the search, which happens to be gmail.google.com. and i tried writing in those search queries, but they didn't work either. it says it can't contact google.com.

edit- does anyone know any place to contact them, i.e. via email or something, cause i can't find any contact information that works. i tried gmail-support@google.com, but i get a message back saying that i should check the gmail help, which doesn't give me the help or info i need.

and all the active x controls options are for internet explorer only.

It probably was because the invatation expired.

no i already have an account. i made it months ago!
anyway i fixed it. it was because of my firewall, so i got a new one. =]