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Since its recent overhaul, Gmail is getting buggier and buggier for me. Or is it really just for me?

I ranted and ranted to friends and relatives, twitted about it, talked to myself and decided not to get too angry with it, but enough! Now it’s revenge blogging time!

My main problems seem to be Gmail running in multiple instances (say, tabs) and the search functionality. At home (Safari), Gmail refuses to cooperate when I have multiple instances of it open, since it does not respond at clicks at all. At work (Firefox), using the search function completely locks up my browser at least once per day, forcing me to kill and restart the app. I’m quite lukewarm towards Firefox these days, but this is just insane!

I don’t know what’s wrong - my inbox is almost always empty since I tag and archive everything, I have only 3 labels (OK, maybe a little more with Mail.app IMAP integration) and.. that’s it! I use only 5% of my total space and I’m a relatively occasional e-mailer. What’s wrong?

Before you start, yes, I disabled Firebug for Gmail ages ago. The problems persist though. Sometimes even switching to the older version won’t do - because the app itself won’t let me into the old version, freezing upon loading.

Needless to say, this has cost me many precious minutes - since I work by e-mail for PC Magazine, I find it highly irritating that my Gmail won’t obey me.

Has any of you experienced a similar problem after the update?

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 at 4:27 pm by Sugar and is filed under Rantings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.