# My gmail is completely fucked up
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 13, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789 "2011-11-13T13:38:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/1 "2011-11-13T13:38:27Z")
I can’t see the most recent email received. I switched over to the “new look” and I still can’t. If I hit reply, in new look, the most recent email in a thread will appear in the answer. “Expand all” does absolutely nothing, other than make the bar reading “10 previous emails in this thread” disappear. I’m not seeing anything in my settings that would seem to have anything to do with this.
Is anyone else having problem?
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### Author:  [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/2 "2011-11-13T15:19:26Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> I can’t see the most recent email received. I switched over to the “new look” and I still can’t. If I hit reply, in new look, the most recent email in a thread will appear in the answer. “Expand all” does absolutely nothing, other than make the bar reading “10 previous emails in this thread” disappear. I’m not seeing anything in my settings that would seem to have anything to do with this.
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> Is anyone else having problem?
I was having this issue yesterday. I tried most of the things you did and wound up having to forward the email I was trying to read to my Yahoo account, where it opened just fine.
It resolved itself after a couple of hours, though. Maybe just check back later?
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### Author:  [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/3 "2011-11-13T15:23:25Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> I can’t see the most recent email received. I switched over to the “new look” and I still can’t. If I hit reply, in new look, the most recent email in a thread will appear in the answer. “Expand all” does absolutely nothing, other than make the bar reading “10 previous emails in this thread” disappear. I’m not seeing anything in my settings that would seem to have anything to do with this.
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> Is anyone else having problem?
Did you recently get updated to Firefox 8? I’m having this same problem. (I don’t think it’s anything to do with the new look, as you can switch back temporarily to the old look, and I have the same problem)
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/4 "2011-11-13T17:02:58Z")
> [@Raygun99](#):
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> Did you recently get updated to Firefox 8? I’m having this same problem. (I don’t think it’s anything to do with the new look, as you can switch back temporarily to the old look, and I have the same problem)
No, I haven’t updated FF yet, so that’s not it.
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### Author:  [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/5 "2011-11-13T18:22:23Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> I can’t see the most recent email received. I switched over to the “new look” and I still can’t. If I hit reply, in new look, the most recent email in a thread will appear in the answer. “Expand all” does absolutely nothing, other than make the bar reading “10 previous emails in this thread” disappear. I’m not seeing anything in my settings that would seem to have anything to do with this.
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> Is anyone else having problem?
I had this exact problem since yesterday, and I finally fixed it by going to Adblock Plus Preferences/Filters/Update all Subscriptions.
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/6 "2011-11-13T18:30:38Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#):
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> I had this exact problem since yesterday, and I finally fixed it by going to Adblock Plus Preferences/Filters/Update all Subscriptions.
You da man! Thanks, that did it.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/7 "2011-11-13T19:11:24Z")
Speaking of Gmail’s new look–what do you think of it? I think it’s too spaced out. I can’t see as many emails per page as I used to be and I think it wastes space.
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### Author:  [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/8 "2011-11-13T19:31:55Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> You da man! Thanks, that did it.
That worked for me as well.
Opal: you can change the spacing in the settings menu.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/9 "2011-11-14T00:21:47Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#):
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> I had this exact problem since yesterday, and I finally fixed it by going to Adblock Plus Preferences/Filters/Update all Subscriptions.
How did you ever figure that out?
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### Author:  [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/10 "2011-11-14T02:08:50Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> How did you ever figure that out?
Disabled Firefox add-ons one by one until gmail started working again.
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### Author:  [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/11 "2011-11-14T02:47:55Z")
> [@OpalCat](#):
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> Speaking of Gmail’s new look–what do you think of it? I think it’s too spaced out. I can’t see as many emails per page as I used to be and I think it wastes space.
You can change the spacing between messages by going up to the little gear icon in the top right of the screen, and under where it says “Display Density,” choose “Compact”.
I don’t like the new look, either. I miss my customized colors, and I don’t like how the buttons have picture icons instead of text labels. What’s so wrong with reading, huh?
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/12 "2011-11-14T04:17:43Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#):
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> I don’t like the new look, either. I miss my customized colors, and I don’t like how the buttons have picture icons instead of text labels. What’s so wrong with reading, huh?
Especially since I hover over the icon to read a text label.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/13 "2011-11-14T13:50:08Z")
> [@Raygun99](#):
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> That worked for me as well.
> Opal: you can change the spacing in the settings menu.
Thank you!!! That is so much better!
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### Author:  [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/14 "2011-11-14T14:54:45Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#):
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> I had this exact problem since yesterday, and I finally fixed it by going to Adblock Plus Preferences/Filters/Update all Subscriptions.
THANK YOU! I was having the same problem. When I read the thread title, I knew it was going to be the same problem I was having.
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gmail-is-completely-fucked-up/602789/15 "2011-11-15T18:29:55Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> I can’t see the most recent email received. I switched over to the “new look” and I still can’t. If I hit reply, in new look, the most recent email in a thread will appear in the answer. “Expand all” does absolutely nothing, other than make the bar reading “10 previous emails in this thread” disappear. I’m not seeing anything in my settings that would seem to have anything to do with this.
>
> Is anyone else having problem?
I had trouble when I “upgraded” to Firefox 8. Expand All did nothing, the message was simply invisible. If I tried to reply, I got a message saying “rich text editor couldn’t be opened”. Egad.
One suggestion was to re-open Firefox in safe mode, i.e. with all addons disabled. That would work for one message, then not so much.
Somehow I stumbled across another addin, that supposedly makes gmail work better with Firefox, and that appears to have solved the problem.
Annoying as hell though.