Gmail Turf + Chrome Grass themes = yuck

Google lets you use the Gmail’s Turf theme with Chrome’s Grass theme. Don’t.
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Google is clearly proud of its environmental ethos and likes to show it off through its products, but there can be too much of a good thing.
Mostly in an attempt to gross people out, I tried adding the new [...]

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Get out of the Gmail loop

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A recent update to a popular Firefox plug-in breaks Gmail, but fortunately the fix is simple.
Gmail Manager creates a toolbar icon that can notify you of unread mail in multiple Gmail accounts and show you mail snippets. Last week’s update to v0.5.7 created what Firefox labeled a “redirection limit for this URL exceeded” error [...]

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Google promises reliability for Docs, Calendar

Customers paying Google for Gmail are guaranteed the e-mail service will be available 99.9 percent of the time or they get a refund. Now the company has extended the promise to Google Calendar, Google Docs, and all the other elements of its Google Apps service.
Google shows off its lower downtime measurements compared to Radicate Group’s [...]

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