Google is introducing Google+-like feedback buttons now. 2011/7/18 Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com>
> I can no longer find any forum or submission form for reporting > problems to Google. You're a bunch of tech-savvy people using Google > Groups and, probably in many cases, gmail. Do any of you know either: > > 1. How to report problems to Google nowadays, in such a way that they > will actually receive attention rather than disappear down a black > hole? > > 2. How to avoid weirdness like this: I was catching up on the long > clooj thread, and when I was about halfway down suddenly the browser > started spinning and then loaded the gmail login page with my username > filled in but a blank password field! I didn't hit anything but > MWHEELUP or MWHEELDN proximate to this event, so it seems as if > somehow *someone else* clicked the "signout" link in the top right > corner on my behalf. (The mouse pointer FWIW was nowhere near there > and my hands were off the keyboard, so no mis-click or mis-key could > have caused it.) This should not be possible, yet it happened. Worse, > the "back" button did not DTRT and return me to the page I was reading > and my position partway down that page, even though it should have > still been in my browser's cache after such a short absence (ten > seconds? Less?). So I wound up losing my place in the thread and it > took me several minutes to find the exact right spot again. Obviously > frustrating, and since I didn't do anything wrong to deserve such > frustration, this behavior of the browser is obviously incorrect. > AFAICT, this falls squarely on Google's shoulders no matter where the > bug is: Google Groups is their responsibility, gmail is their > responsibility, and the browser I was using was Chrome, which is guess > whose responsibility? So, does anyone know what caused this and how to > make sure it never, ever, ever, ever, ever happens again? I do NOT > want to be in the middle of reading ANY page and suddenly have my > browser deciding, on its own initiative, to navigate itself to some > other page. EVER. It's MY browser. It goes where *I* tell it to, when > *I* tell it to, and NOT BEFORE, and I wish to know how to actually > enforce that -- which I shouldn't even have to, as that should be its > natural behavior anyway! > > And don't tell me to ditch Chrome and use Firefox. Recent versions of > Firefox have a very similar and inexplicable behavior that can strike > on any page and that happens much more frequently: if anything at all > slows down the computer, such as something else paging or > wool-gathering, Firefox 4 and above will blank the page you were in > the middle of reading and hide the tab bar and show a spinning-wheel > mouse cursor for a while. Or sometimes, inexplicably, jump to the last > YouTube page visited (why YouTube?), render it shoddily (usually with > most of the page elements surrounding the media player missing), and > sit there unresponsive for a while. Then eventually jump back. > > I'd take anything else, including a temporarily-nonresponsive browser > frozen displaying the same page I was on (which I can at least > continue to read until I hit the bottom of the screen!), over that. > > -- > Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! > Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true > hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more > civilized age. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
