Google is hiding my email due to conflict with ad-blocking

[Caelum75]

As of yesterday, November 10, 2011, when I go to my Gmail account and click on a new message, it takes me to the message but the content is not there. It is as though the message is rolled up into a bar at the top of the message screen and there is no opening it.
When I go to Firefox or Safari I can access my mail just fine. What is going on? Any help out there? I prefer using Camino.
Thanks.

[cflawson]

Have you tried 2.1rc2 yet? Google seems to be slowly but surely breaking all their properties for browsers older than Gecko 1.9.2 (Firefox 3.6/Camino 2.1).

cl

[Caelum75]

Thanks for posting back,

Yeah, I've upgraded to Firefox 8 and get my mail just fine. The weird thing is i have two gmail accoutns----one, no longer shows my messages and the other, right now is fine.

What do you mean by: 2.1rc2 ?

[cflawson]

The latest pre-release version of Camino.

cl

[phiw13]

You can get Camino 2.1rc2 from this post.

Gmail works perfectly fine with those builds.

[ivankreipe]

You can get Camino 2.1rc2 from this post.

Gmail works perfectly fine with those builds.

As of 11-11-11 in the pm I have the same problem, In Camino, login to gmail just fine but when you try to open an email it displays a blank page with with only the title showing, no content. pages display fine Firefox,Chrome and Safari but I prefer Camino especailly for mail because it's the only one where autofill really works properly. I just did install 2.1rc2 restarted Camino and it did not fix the problem. See screenshots in the link below.
https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/1589445 ... s?h=bd40b0
my specs are;
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&shva=1#inbox
Camino
Version 2.0.9 (1.9.0.19 2011091218)
Mac os x version 10.5.8
build 9l30
help please
ivan

[Yanson]

I am experiencing this problem with Version 2.1 (1.9.2.24 20111103201058).

[Caelum75]

I am experiencing this problem with Version 2.1 (1.9.2.24 20111103201058).

Glad/sad to hear others are experiencing this problem. I did the upgrade as suggested and even upgraded Flash but to no avail. I cannot read my messages unless I click "Reply" or "Forward" and then the messages are displayed as part of a reply or forward. NOT good.
Love Camino but this latest bug. Hope you get it fixed sometime. In the meantime I'll be using Firefox.

[phiw13]

@ivankreipe
based on you screenshots, it appears that you had the pref 'Always use my page and link colors' checked in Camino Preferences > Appearance > Colors and links. That pref has been removed from the Camino preference window, but apparently still has some effect.
To reset the pref, type 'about:config' (without the quotes) in the location bar, click the big button ('I understand…') and then filter for 'browser.display.use_document_colors', reset to 'true' (double click the line).
That will at least fix part of the problem.

To others with a gmail problem: try deleting all google related cookies:
Camino Preferences > Privacy, click the 'show cookies…' button
'google.com', 'accounts.google.com', 'mail.google.com', …

[Uncle Asad]

What happens if you use Troubleshoot Camino (http://www.ardisson.org/smokey/moz/Trou ... Camino.zip) to launch Camino using a temporary profile? Does Gmail work then?

[phiw13]

So, it appears that gmail is progressively pushing some changes to the underlying markup. As a result, turning on adblocking in Camino prevents seeing the individual messages / message thread.

Users of Camino 2.1 rc can fix it as follows:
1. open the file ~/Application Support/Camino/Chrome/user_ad_blocking.css in a plain text editor
2. add the following snippet at the bottom of the file and save:

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@-moz-document domain(mail.google.com) {
div[class~="ads"] { display: block !important;}
}

3. in Camino Preferences > Web Features, uncheck and check on again 'block web advertising'.

You should now be able to see your messages.

[Caelum75]

After dinking around again, I clicked "Empty Cache", signed outand then signed in again and NOW I see my mail. Hope it holds.


That was without doing the things suggested by phiw13.

But thanks anyway.

[davedit]

So, it appears that gmail is progressively pushing some changes to the underlying markup. As a result, turning on adblocking in Camino prevents seeing the individual messages / message thread.

Users of Camino 2.1 rc can fix it as follows:
1. open the file ~/Application Support/Camino/Chrome/user_ad_blocking.css in a plain text editor
2. add the following snippet at the bottom of the file and save:

Code: Select all

@-moz-document domain(mail.google.com) {
div[class~="ads"] { display: block !important;}
}

3. in Camino Preferences > Web Features, uncheck and check on again 'block web advertising'.

You should now be able to see your messages.

Thank you! This worked for me. I was wondering what was going on as well!

[Caelum75]

ooops doesn't hold.

[Uncle Asad]

phiw13 and I spent more time looking into this tonight, and his suggestion above is going cause (random!) problems collapsing messages in conversations.

So we're going to fix it by removing the rule in question (div[id~="ads"] in ad_blocking.css inside Camino). I hate to recommend hacking files inside Camino.app, but that's the "best" way to fix this until we have a new build (especially for folks still using 2.0.9)

If you've made phiw13's change to user_ad_blocking.css in your profile's chrome folder, you'll want to remove it to prevent problems collapsing messages in the future…