ferdium
Gmail doesn't load in Ferdium anymore
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Ferdium Version
6.7.4
What Operating System are you using?
Windows
Operating System Version
Windows 11
What arch are you using?
x64
Last Known Working Ferdium version
No response
Expected Behavior
Gmail service loads as normal.
Actual Behavior
After restarting Ferdium Gmail service opens to a login screen but then errors out with:
"This browser or app may not be secure. Try using a different browser."
Steps to reproduce
- Reload a Gmail service
- Enter uid at login prompt.
Debug link
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Screenshots
Additional information
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This is a feature, not a bug. Use this opportunity to move to a service that respects your privacy and doesn't use AI to analyze all of your email content and sell it to the highest bidder AKA Governments and Advertisers.
But seriously now, was it working before? Did you try clearing cache? Did you try reinstalling the service, maybe trying another account? How about checking the system clock, that can be a source of problems if not synchronized correctly. Can you replicate this on other computers as well, or is it a problem with just one?
You have left out a lot of information. Try checking the things that i mentioned, or anything else that comes to mind.
This is not helpful, but have you considered using an email client for your emails? Thunderbird, for example, works perfectly with Gmail if you use OAuth2.
Apart from the suggestions above me, you could also try overriding the user agent. Go into Settings -> Advanced and paste in the user agent with the latest Chrome for Win 11 (at the time of writing): Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36. You might also have to change the index.js file. Check out some other recipes like Messenger or Instagram's, which would include the method overrideUserAgent().
I had the same issue on macOS. It was working fine and then one day after the latest update I got the same message, : This browser or app may not be secure. Same for the Gmail & the Google calendar service.
I deleted both services and re-added them, had to log-in again, but it seems to be working for now.
Version: 7.1.0
Server: Ferdium Server
Electron: 35.4.0
Chrome: 134.0.6998.205
Node.js: 22.15.0
Platform: macOS Sequoia 15.6 (Apple M2 Pro)
Arch: arm64
Build date: Sun May 25 2025 18:24:11 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)
Git SHA: c5030181
Git branch: release
In my regular browser (Zen, Firefox & Vivaldi), I never had that issue.
