Who's to Blame? Gmail or Safari? - The Solution
Ever since the new gmail upgrade, my mac world
hasn't been very peachy! It almost completely
screwed me over! Checking emails has suddenly
become exasperating. I open Safari and log into
my gmail account, to find that none of the
buttons and links are clickable. Sending
attachments is impossible. The status bar hangs
on one last item to load. I keep refreshing the
page with hope, only to see a very disappointing
"Oops.. a server error occurred" message after
half an hour. It's not a server error Goddammit!
It's GMAIL.
For
two days, I unwillingly moved to Safari's
arch-nemesis, the ugly and unreliable Firefox,
to check email. But, I kept switching back to
Safari out of habit. Safari seemed to work well
with every other website. But, in the end, this
switching back and forth just to check email was
"so not happening". I HAD to find a way out. It
doesnt help that I have become a slave to
email... to gmail. I even send and receive
office mails from it and have a million email
aliases and manage multiple accounts from the
gmail interface. Gmail is really the most
intuitive chameleon-like interface I have come
across. I can not only receive emails from my
other addresses (hotmail, office mail etc), but
can also customize the "from" address and send
messages that display my other addresses
(hotmail, office mail etc) in place of my gmail
address.
Anyway, despite all this praise, the new gmail release is anything but useful.
I noticed that Gmail was working perfectly well on my older mac with the older version of Safari. So it was only a matter of figuring out whom to blame. New Safari or New Gmail or New Gmail on New Safari.
After troubleshooting for a whole day, I found this button on the top right corner of my gmail inbox that said "Older Version". That did it! The solution was right in front of my nose all this while. Isn't it amazing how one button can miraculously change everything?
Dear Safari (new and old) and Gmail (old),
I am a happy slave again, checking and sending messages more enthusiastically than ever, at the rate of once every 30 seconds.
I still feel nauseous and queasy owing to the overuse of Firefox!
But all's well that ends well?
