Aardvark Solves My Gmail Problem

摘要

This week I have a mystery that has been resolved but not explained.When the problem started I polled many very clever people but no one could give me an answer. The mystery is this: I run Firefox 3.07 on OS X 10.4.11 to access Gmail. A few days ago I couldn't log in. I entered my user name and password and Gmail returned to the login screen without an error message or anything apparently amiss other than I was back where I started. Oddly enough, I could log in from the same Mac using Safari 3.2.1, as I could using Firefox 3.0.7 on Windows XP SP2. A friend suggested that the Firebug plugin could be the culprit as it sometimes causes problems, but although I had been using it I had disabled it for exactly that reason a few weeks before. In fact, in trying to figure out what was wrong I had disabled all of the Firefox add-ons on my Mac but nothing changed - I still couldn't log in. Even reinstalling Firefox didn't help.