Can't Sign Into Gmail

[Bundito14]

I would love to use this browser as an everyday alternative, however, it won't let me sign into my Google account due to "security reasons." Is there a workaround to this?

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(from @PalmerAL):

For anyone else having this issue, please post the following:

1. Do you have 2FA enabled?
2. OS
3. Approximate location (if you're willing to share)

If you're running the latest version of Min, try enabling the "use a custom user agent" in the Min preferences, and pasting the following in the user agent field:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:74.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/74.0

Once you do this, you'll need to restart Min before signing in.

Please let us know whether this works for you.

[PalmerAL]

Can you post a screenshot of the exact error you're getting? Multiple people have reported this in the past few weeks (1, 2), but I'm able to sign in without any issues, so I'm not sure why this is happening.

[ghost]

In my case I can login my first account but after this I can't add any another accounts.

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[PalmerAL]

This looks to be the same as this issue unfortunately: MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-#3545. I've also tried this with two accounts, and I can log in to both simultaneously, so it appears to only be applied to some subset of people.

@lee-yunseok Assuming you're running min with electron 7 (which you should be if you used the default version from npm), can you try this?

• Go here and find your current user agent.
• Replace the Chromium version string in the user agent with "78.0.3904.97" or "78.0.3904.108".
• In UASwitcher.js, set newUserAgent to the string from step 2.

[ghost]

@PalmerAL Where is the Chromium version string?

[PalmerAL]

@lee-yunseok It's the part of the string that starts with "chrome", for example:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.94 Safari/537.36

[ghost]

@PalmerAL Sorry, wrong question. Where is user agent?

[PalmerAL]

@lee-yunseok For getting the user agent, use the link above; once you've modified it, delete the contents of UASwitcher.js in (/main), and replace it with this:

app.userAgentFallback = <the new user agent>

[ghost]

@PalmerAL It doesn't work for my RPi.

[PalmerAL]

Some more reports of this happening in other browsers: https://old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/e7136e/google_bans_falkon_and_konqueror_browsers/

Supposedly it works if you use a Firefox user agent.

[ghost]

@PalmerAL Okay it failed on my RPi, also edited UA with cURL but that didn't work either when I using original Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux aarch64). but I got a hint from there, set user agent to Firefox - Windows in the Inspect Element and it work. Don't need to edit UASwitcher.js.

@Bundito14 I don't know what OS you use, but how about trying this?

[drumber13]

Я нашел решение проблемы. Могу ли я написать его здесь, чтобы гугл увидели и не пофиксили?

[PalmerAL]

@malyiy I don't think that's something to worry about, although I can't say for sure.

(using Google Translate):

Я не думаю, что это о чем-то беспокоиться, хотя я не могу сказать наверняка.

[drumber13]

@PalmerAL Мы можем списаться в чате каком-то? Я скажу как, а там уже ты разберешься
:)

[PalmerAL]

@malyiy You can email me: [email protected].

[LouieTian0209]

@PalmerAL For me I can only sign into the first account, and all other sign in attempts after that will get denied due to "security reasons". I'm thinking maybe it has something to do with 2-step authentication cuz the first account that I can sign in doesn't have 2-step authentication whereas all other accoutns I have have that feature enabled. Not guaranteed, just my observation.

[PalmerAL]

I've added a user agent option to the settings page in f427d20, which should make it somewhat easier to work around this.

[ghost]

I've added a user agent option to the settings page in f427d20, which should make it somewhat easier to work around this.

This has solved my issue with google services. Will continue to use with everything and report anymore issues.

[whiterock]

I have the same issue. In google chrome I googled "my user agent" which showed:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.138 Safari/537.36
Putting this in the custom user agent in the preferences in min and restarting, I unfortunately still get the message:

Do I maybe need to clear some cache? If so, how?

[PalmerAL]

No Chrome user agent works (even if it's identical); you have to use a Firefox one.

[whiterock]

No Chrome user agent works (even if it's identical); you have to use a Firefox one.

Ah thank you, using the firefox agent worked. Very strange, I wonder why that is ...

[ItsJamie9494]

I'm guessing Google has a different verification method for Chrome user agents

[FcoMarcosMAbreu]

Just contributing with the dicussion...

I'd tried the latest Google Chrome's user agent and didn't work.

So I did set user agent with the latest Mozilla Firefox's user agent. Now I can log into Google.

[PalmerAL]

@FcoMarcosMAbreu Can you also try the Edge user agent?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.61 Safari/537.36 Edg/83.0.478.37

I'm hoping to be able to enable that one by default (#893)

[ebrensi]

The default settings work great for me in Pop_OS! 20.04. I have gmail open in a tab right now.

[thommesborg]

Hi all. I see this is a very old thread, but it's not fixed jet. I'm also unable to log-in to google-accounts. Tried to change the user-agent several times to no avail.

[daniel-bergmann]

#868 (comment)
I did manage to move across this problem, but it's still a hack. @thommesborg

[thommesborg]

#868 (comment) I did manage to move across this problem, but it's still a hack. @thommesborg

Hi Dan, tried it but won't work.

Thanks for the suggestion!!

[deveshXm]

Hi! I turned off ad blocker and tracker blocking and then it allowed me to login to the browser. This worked for me. Maybe it is blocking something which google needs.

[ghost]

Long time no see. One of the Raspberry Pi user here. With RPi 4B, RasPiOS(Linux Debian based) ARM64, still working with user agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:106.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/106.0

For multi-user login, JUST enable user scripts works well. #868 (comment)

[S0Iomon]

Galaxy Nexus works now. Mozilla Firefox as User Agent does not.

[fearlessgeekmedia]

Having this problem on Arch Linux. It's a shame because I really like the Min browser, yet I need to access some stuff in my Google accounts.

[brr53]

The current approach to solving this issue is wrong and should not be considered. We should not be setting the Chrome user agent to a different browser such as Firefox. Doing so can give unintended consequences as it is easily distinguishable. The true foolproof solution comes from patching navigator.userAgent AND navigator.appVersion to remove the subversions.

Be sure that this script executes before Google's. Looking forward to hearing if this worked for you.

    const reg = /[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ Safari/;
    const patchedUserAgent = navigator.userAgent.replace(reg, "0.0 Safari");
    const patchedAppVersion = navigator.appVersion.replace(reg, "0.0 Safari");
    Object.defineProperty(navigator, "userAgent", {
      get() {
        return patchedUserAgent;
      },
      enumerable: true,
      configurable: true,
    })
    Object.defineProperty(navigator, "appVersion", {
      get() {
        return patchedAppVersion;
      },
      enumerable: true,
      configurable: true,
    })

[fearlessgeekmedia]

OK, I'm trying it in the developer tools. But how do I get it to put the script before the page even loads their script? I don't even get a chance. I'm not that fast.

[fearlessgeekmedia]

I figured it out. I didn't know anything about userscripts in Min. But now I do. :) I created one with this code and it worked. Thanks!

[lbkNhubert]

Cannot get this to work. Scripts active. Explicit, idiot-level step by step instructions for this specific issue much appreciated. Thank you.

[devgocri]

@lbkNhubert and everyone else that may need it, I have put @brr53's solution into a userscript file so all you need to do is download the file and put in the proper userscripts folder as explained here

https://gist.github.com/devgocri/fb550849a75f60c62996f1cdd3c1a47a

This has worked well for me so far.

[lbkNhubert]

Thank you @devgocri, unfortunately for some reason this still does not work. I do have other userscripts working, but I can't get the one to allow login to google accounts to work.

[lbkNhubert]

Adding a match for *.google.com now has things working. Thank you for the help. Looking at the console log, I saw other google sites being hit and figured adding a wildcard was worth a try.

[cbertelli]

The new beta (v. 1.28.0-beta) opens GMail and Chat without any workaround

[PalmerAL]

For anyone experiencing this, I have two branches that may fix this:

1. The user agent changes that @brr53 recommended: https://github.com/minbrowser/min/tree/ua-updates
2. Allowing the /browserinfo endpoint when content blocking is on: https://github.com/minbrowser/min/tree/google-signin-2
3. Both changes combined: https://github.com/minbrowser/min/tree/google-signin-changes

If you're having this issue, can you please try running the branches above, and let me know which (if any) work?

[devgocri]

The latest version of Min allows me to log into Google services (1.28.1).

[PalmerAL]

The latest version of Min allows me to log into Google services (1.28.1).

This isn't universal unfortunately, see #2306 for an example.

I don't think there's much harm in releasing these changes, so I'm going to include them in the next release (#2318). Hopefully after that we can gather more data on whether this makes a difference.

[iambudi]

I'm not signing to gmail, but it's the same issue.
I go to here: StackOverflow AI Early Access, choose login using google account.

Previously i used user agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:100.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/100.0
Using @louis-27 agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.36

It worked.

[PalmerAL]

@iambudi When it failed, were you using the Firefox UA or the default one? If you disable the custom UA setting and just use the default, does it work?

[iambudi]

@PalmerAL It failed when using firefox. Now it also works with the default one by unticking the custom user agent.

Check browser agent return
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

[cittadhammo]

Had the same problem today, the default user agent did not work, I used
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/537.36
And it works

interestingly I have the message

Also, I connected on brave at the same time and used gmail at the same time. I don't know if it helped

This is my computer config at the moment:

[iambudi]

@PalmerAL It failed when using firefox. Now it also works with the default one by unticking the custom user agent.

This is no longer work on latest update (Mac Version). Should use the custom one.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/608.4.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.4 Safari/608.4.8