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Postby Doubleshadow » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:15 pm

My roomate has been trying to acess her G-Mail account, which she has been able to previously from my computer, but now it is refusing to let her due to something called "Active X". I have no idea what thr problem is. If any of you know what brought about the change and/or how to fix it, please let me know. :?:
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Postby shooraijin » Wed Jul 20, 2005 4:25 pm

ActiveX not being on, or not being off?

Has she tried another browser? Firefox, for example?
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Postby Rogie » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:16 pm

If she's using IE6 on a PC with Service Pack 2, then the browser may be asking for permission to use the Active X to load Gmail. I think I worded that correctly.

If a little yellow bar is showing up near the top of the browser, then click on it and tell it to allow Active X.

Otherwise, I'm not sure.
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Postby Doubleshadow » Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:56 pm

Gmail requires ActiveX controls to be enabled

Your browser seems to be Internet Explorer, and ActiveX seems to be disabled. Gmail's standard view requires ActiveX to be enabled in order to operate.

To use Gmail's standard view, enable ActiveX controls in Internet Explorer. You can do this by going to the Tools menu, selecting Internet Options, Security tab, Internet zone, and either select the Default Level, or selecting Custom Level and scrolling down to "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins" and selecting Enable.

After enabling ActiveX controls, try again.

To use Gmail's basic HTML view, which does not require ActiveX, click here.

That's what it says, and we tried both the links. No go. We'll see with Fire Fox.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Wed Jul 20, 2005 8:34 pm

ever use activex.... never use internet explorer

mozilla firefox 1.0.5 recently came out, and boy is it nice
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Postby Doubleshadow » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:15 am

FireFox worked, and after all that, she had no new mail. Thanks guys.
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Postby shooraijin » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:37 am

That's okay, because now she'll see the love that is Firefox. ^_^
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:51 am

shooraijin wrote:That's okay, because now she'll see the love that is Firefox. ^_^


tricky tricky, that firefox is
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