Gmail display issue in Internet Explorer 8
Posted in computing on May 13th, 2009Recently I installed Windows 7 RC on my PC. With Windows 7 comes Internet Explorer 8. Today, I logged into gmail and found a strange display issue – all of the inline menus were displaying in the standard format. The buttons were in the order of Archive, under that was Report Spam, then Delete and so on and so forth. It tripped me out so I did a quick google search for gmail ie8 and ended up at an article that discussed the same issue but had no solution. Well, the solution was buried deep in the comments section.
Long story short, seems to happen if you have a theme enabled, and the fix is to go into your settings, click on the themes tab then choose a different theme and save the settings. You can switch it right back and the issue will still be resolved.
Yay for google :)
UPDATE: Well, after finishing this article I came to find out that the issue kept coming back each time i started a new browsing session. In the end, I had to disable Gmail Offline – its a Labs feature that kicks much ass – but it doesnt play well with IE8.