Wednesday, February 11, 2009

New Gmail Features That Do Not Work Well

Multiple Inboxes - I like this feature. Incredible way to create different views on the same messages. In my case, directing multiple email accounts to the same place and differentiating the view. No need to login into multiple places. Multiple Inboxes behaves a little funny. First, if you access a message from the "main" inbox and it is seen in a second inbox, subsequent changes (delete, new messages in conversation, etc) will not appear on the other view without refreshing the Inbox or the page. Secondly, if you do not log out properly, it acts funny in both Google Chrome and IE 7 - requiring a flush of temp files to fix.

Gmail Offline - This is a nightmare. It perceives itself to not be connected when it is. Very annoying. Couple that with errors from Multiple Inboxes and you have a non-functioning email set up.

Google Chrome - Add the above two to Google Chrome and an erratic connection and you may as well give up. Nothing works. Disabling offline and deleting all temporary files solved most of the problems - but it was hard to believe that IE7 was more stable with Google products than Google's own browser.

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