Dont think much of Gmail anyway but at the moment, get onto page then goes black, dark grey n freezes. Anyway would consider any suggestions for safe email with not a lot of spam.
I would agree with Trystan - it sounds as if the problem may be bigger than just gmail ..... has this happened with other web pages ? There is also the possibility that your anti virus may cause a conflict if it is set up to check emails as they are downloaded to your computer