Resolved Why is it no longer to log in to Gmail from IE9 and IE10

Strange things happening.


May be a coincidence but after updating a couple of boxes to day with the Tuesday fixes, on my Vista box I cannot log in to Gmail, and on one of my Win 7 boxes the same happens. On this box I have updated IE to v10 but not sure if that is the problem to be honest.


Is anyone else affected?

The message when attempting to sign is:

Please use https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin instead.

Trying this just reverts to the original Gmail login page.



EDIT.


Seems to be happening even on a box that has not been updated for a month, so is it possibly a Gmail issue that fails to understand something IE specific.


EDIT #2

Seems like it is not possible to login to Gmail from any computer/browser at present.

If you are already logged in and your cookies are in order there is no problem.

 

I log in everyday with 9 and/or 10 and no problem. Just checked before I posted this and all is well. I do have all the M$ updates that just came out.

 

All very odd.


Just checked now, at 16:40 GMT


Chrome, IE 9, IE 10 all fail to login if you use the normal Gmail login page. Using FireFox where the username and password are already populated, no problem.

Surely, it is a Google issue.

Unless, perhaps there is an obscure issue because my original (UK) address was the old, and clumsy, @googlemail.com.


You can enter the username, unless it is already pre-entered, as normal.

You can enter the password but then you end up in ever decreasing circles of 'Please use https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin instead.'

 

Stranger and stranger.

Over the past 10 minutes each browser, on three different computer has slowly begun to accept the login process.

On one box it was necessary to clear the Chrome cookies which then gave a 'cookies not set' error, but after checking all setting all was fine.


As it was an issue with different boxes and different computers I have to assume that it was some Google problem. Probably never know! :-(

 

Same as MrBill, no problems at all. It sounds like your systems are slowly correcting themselves. Neil.

 

No Gmail issues here either. Been working great in all browsers on several various devices running either Windows or Android.

 

Thanks for the responses.

Whatever it was appears to have been resolved.

All very odd because the same thing was happening on IE and Chrome on 3 different computers, but everything was fine with FireFox.


Can't, however, think of any logical explanation. :-(