Oh Google, You Lie.

I’m not picking on technology this week but between the Firefox issues I had this week and now Chrome… I think I’m going to quit using computers.  Period.

(haha… Okay, now that I’ve stopped laughing over the idea of me quitting the Internet, let me illustrate today’s post in picture form.)

So, I started using Chrome when Firefox began failing me.  Big time.  Chrome is pretty decent and I’ve loved their light, airy functionality.  Logging into Gmail today, I saw this message.  Of course, me anticipating that it’ll become the perfect opportunity for a #fail post, I took a screenshot.

(You might be wondering if my attitude is like that in general and no, I’m really a happy, positive person… I was just having a bad two days of browser fails…)

So, I thought, “Awesome!  Google Chrome will run Gmail better and faster.”

Here’s where I should have known better.

Apparently, if you leave Gmail “sit” inactive in your browser for ten minutes, it renders the entire screen unusable, useless and well… not better or faster at all.  In fact, I can’t click on anything.

This picture depicts the highlight behind the buttons.  This illustrates that I am clicking but nothing is happening.

Here I am clicking on the Refresh button but instead of refreshing, it highlights it blue and puts a pretty orange box around it.  Awesome!

Here, I have clicked on “Settings” as you can see in the address bar URL.  However, I am still obviously sitting in my inbox as depicted on the left side of the image.  Ahhh, I heart browsers that listen.

So…  Google lied.  It doesn’t run Gmail faster.  It just doesn’t run it at all.  How ironic when a software program can’t run it’s own programs well.

Also noted, Google Chrome, even though it “shut down” Gmail, still runs other websites properly.

*sigh*

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