Comments on: Gmail is losing its Capital Letters!

By: Isabel

Isabel — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:59:42 +0000

I just created a gmail account twice because it wont capitalize the first letter of my name which is the first part of my email. It looks really unprofessional but i guess i am just going to have to keep it that way.

By: Simon Figg

Simon Figg — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:19:40 +0000

posted the issue on the Gmail Users Google Group and they came back with the following response…

http://groups.google.com/group/google-mail-updates-and-alerts-uk/browse_thread/thread/e8e669edf26cc79c/af99e1c754aeac50#af99e1c754aeac50

By: J

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:16:09 +0000

You came up in my google search of the same problem.

It’s only in Eng(UK). Change to Eng(US) and the capital comes back. To be honest this infuriates me more.

By: Ash

Ash — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:44:57 +0000

Same here; “Inbox” and “To” are now “inbox” and “to”. I don’t handle change well!

By: Kelvin Hartnall

Kelvin Hartnall — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:51:06 +0000

Thanks Simon – I’m glad it isn’t only me. Interesting to hear that you have a little i while your daughter doesn’t!

I’ve tested it with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and IE 7, so I agree that it can’t be anything to do with the browser or some browser add-on. Since you have the issue though your daughter doesn’t, then it can’t be geographical. It must be something associated with each account – though I haven’t found a setting called ‘Use little letters for inbox’! If I find out what is causing it I’ll add a comment to this blog, and let me know if you find the cause and solution. in the meantime i’ll try 2 b more cool (it has been a while since 1993) by not using capital letters

By: Shane Legg

Shane Legg — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:50:55 +0000

All my Gmail capitals are intact.

By: Simon Figg

Simon Figg — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:14:18 +0000

No,. you’re not getting old; mine has done the same in the last couple of days and googling a bit a few others have noticed it. My wife also has seen it on her gmail but my daughter hasn’t!

Any news on what’s causing it would be great – can’t be a firefox addon or theme as it happens in IE as well.

By: Greg Day

Greg Day — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:25:23 +0000

Um. I believe you are getting old. You’re not hip and cool anymore (I think there was a 34 second period in 1993 where you were sort of hip and semi-cool). Maybe you should buy yourself a mac?