I’ve noticed a lot of people having problems loading gmail on IE lately. The problem seems to be from a recent update the gmail team did to the interface. If you are having trouble with gmail try this.

Change the url to:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

or if you want SSL encryption, try with https:// as below:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

notice the ?ui=1 on the end. This is

telling it to use an older version of the interface.