Comments on: Gmail suffers a short outage

Google confirms an early-morning outage Friday for the Web-based e-mail service after many users--especially in Europe and Asia--took their complaints to Twitter.

[jregan439]

My iGoogle gmail widget said this morning:
<quote>

The Gmail gadget does not support the "Always use https" setting that you chose in full Gmail. If you would like to use https, please open full Gmail. Learn more
</quote>

Of course I've only been successfully using iGoogle with the same settings for a month or so - and gee, when I refreshed the widget...... :)

[mjconver]

And it's back

[divalicias]

My Gmail account is also down -- same message. Egads.

[knowles2]

it been working fine for me all morning.

[mjconver]

I was down for about 10 minutes. No big deal, it let me finish reading the morning paper.

[paul613]

Like jregan439, I found that my gmail gadget had stopped supporting https. But the gmail gadget found here ("Gmail: Now with Full-Screen viewing"), does:
http://www.gingagadgets.com/hub.php?caller=gmail

[loose_screw]

Holy crap, is this really newsworthy? I can't count the number of times I've been unable to log into my yahoo or hotmail accounts, not to mention their IM servers, and for longer periods of time, yet there was no news articles about those incidents.

[subie09lega]

I agree, I can't count the number of times per day that the in-gmail chat feature tells me that it cannot connect to gmail. Often when I click to send an email, it hangs for a minute or two before it finally sends the email. I know that they are constantly working on "labs" stuff (thus the perpetual beta status) but you'd think that they could keep it up and running just for the basic features.

[gefitz]

Meh. (shrug)

[nasserd]

Somebody call Congress. This is worthy of a congressional subcommittee investigative panel on server reboots.

CNET... you're the new InfoWorld... which was the new eWeek.... crappy mainstream journalism.

[DaveinDC]

How come CNET reports on gmail problems? What about Yahoo eMail? and Yahoogroup? Both Yahoo email and Yahoogroups have had some serious email outages in last few months and NONE of them were reported here. Is there a conflict of interest here? CNET, I expect you to answer here or post a seperate article.

[Calomancer]

Get an android phone- then you can get Gmail even then web Gmail fails you. =p