Google Gmail Slowdowns

I really, really love Google's Gmail web-based email client. The vast majority of the time it works wonderfully.

But there are also times when it just runs slow, or not at all. I'm going to try documenting those times. (All stated times and dates are Pacific timezone.)

• Friday August 3, 2007 - 14:40 - Gmail taking a long time to load from a click. Update - seems to be a problem with Firefox - using Gmail from Safari works normally. Update 2 - shut down all windows in Firefox, quit it, restarted it, and then loaded Gmail and it's working normally now. Empirical observation - this seems to happen consistently after a Firefox update and/or Firefox restarting and automagically restoring previous windows and tabs. All good now - until the next time, but Gmail having occasional downtime is still a LOT better than the synchronization hassles of using a local email client.

By Steve Stroh

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