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Re: Gmail.com was down

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Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

Wow. One web service goes down and you can't even use your browser. Maybe this is a sign that they're too tightly integrated.

No. Since this is only happening to those that explicitly enable syncing with the web this is just a bug.

Re: Gmail.com was down

#253

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Wow. One web service goes down and you can't even use your browser. Maybe this is a sign that they're too tightly integrated.

Or it could be, you know, a BUG

By bug you mean design failure. A trivial external API should not be able to take down a desktop application.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Probably not the time to rub people's face in it, but I host my own mail server because of crap like this. Thread from the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4886236

I doubt any self-hosted service is going to be more reliable than gmail.

Going on 11 years here with no real issues.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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post #107

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

Chromium crash on Arch Linux with this message: http://pastebin.com/f9JMsPzT terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): bitset::set [1] 4934 abort (core dumped) chromium singing out of sync for now.. Edit: no crashes since I signed out of sync Edit2: found a more complete stack trace by somebody else: https://gist.github.com/4251938 Bug Report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/…

Interestingly the bug links to 163267, which is marked private (i.e. a security issue). I've had more downtime out of Google in the past few years than I ever did out of my Yahoo mailbox.

Re: Gmail.com was down

#256

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

Gmail crashed, Chrome didn't, on two of my machines, Version 23.0.1271.95 m, and 23.0.1271.91 m

Re: Gmail.com was down

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A tweet by The Onion: [In Focus] Google Shuts Down Gmail To Show Its Immense Power http://onion.com/UxyLs8

Onion's headlines can be really chilling - one example "Sudanese 14-Year-Old Has Midlife Crisis"

Re: Gmail.com was down

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Or it could be, you know, a BUG

What he said. Some bugs are intrinsically unacceptable in the design of a computer program. Not that everything I do is bugless, but separation of concerns isn't a swear word.

Of course, separation of concerns can lead to swear words if not well thought out.

Re: Gmail.com was down

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post #107

Is this affecting Chrome as well? Looks like it might be a bigger problem. It just crashed for three guys in our office within a few seconds of each other. Edit: Nobody was using Gmail at any point.

Chromium crash on Arch Linux with this message: http://pastebin.com/f9JMsPzT terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): bitset::set [1] 4934 abort (core dumped) chromium singing out of sync for now.. Edit: no crashes since I signed out of sync Edit2: found a more complete stack trace by somebody else: https://gist.github.com/4251938 Bug Report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/…

Chrome it is not crashing for me - on Ubuntu64 12.10 - Germany

Chat seems to be offline - mail works

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