Gears is also being discontinued, so it's a temporary solution at best.

I run a portable version of Thunderbird using IMAP, and sync it every week or two. It's the cleanest way, from my point of view - and as a bonus, the ability to read, reorganize, and transfer my messages to a new account is baked right in. (That's why I'm wary of a lot of professional backup software - the backups are…

I think the chances of two randomly-selected Gmail accounts being stored on the same physical server are, these days, pretty remote.

From the article:

Wow, so it is. $10 for a very big Start Menu.

Yeah, it sounds like some sort of extension or plugin went awry. Possibly the Google Talk video plugin - that's been known to slow things down a little. Try removing that along with Chrome before you reinstall.

I'm not a regular Mac user, so pardon my potential ignorance, but is it not a little silly that this is a separate app from iChat? Apple's usually pretty smart about consolidating services.

I haven't had any problems. What sort of bugginess were you experiencing?

Ah, I see. I think most of that can probably be accomplished with regular extensions and HTML5's offline storage capabilities. But I'd certainly love to see those things in any form.

Hm. How would that work? Isn't the "browser" always open in Chrome OS?

If you're a Windows user, turn off Autoplay. For everything.

This just doesn't bother me. Visiting a website and getting a cookie is the equivalent of walking into a store and being filmed by a security camera - except that it's more anonymous, and I can disable or delete cookies at my leisure. And yes, I'm glad I have that option for some things. But most of the time, I don't…

To be clear, the idea is that it's hidden, not removed.

I think I'd be ok if I could access it in one click, and (in addition) with a keyboard shortcut. Not just to show it, but to switch focus to it. And it would need to be unintrusive, like a drawer or a drop-down - no overlays, and no frivolous animations like Safari does with everything.

Hm. It puts me off a little. It would force them to add another element (the search button, or bar, or whatever it is) to an already-crowded tab bar. These mockups don't even account for the OS window management buttons. And I think the tabs might look a little strange without another toolbar beneath them.

I suppose that would boost the importance of this article, since, if you never die, you'll be attending funerals until the end of time.

Why in the world are Google Bookmarks and Chrome Bookmarks still separate?

That sounds like an accurate description of the scenario, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. In the simplest terms, the purpose of a search engine is to figure out what you're looking for and bring it to you, whether it's a specific target, or just more information about a topic. It seems to me that…

I can't believe I never thought of this. I've now uninstalled Foxit Reader; Chrome does its job perfectly.

For me, this could be annoying because it's redundant. I have a small enough group of friends that I can follow their tweets, Facebook statuses, etc. without missing anything. So when Google tells me "hey, your friend Matt posted about the new Radiohead album!", I'd be thinking "yeah, I know, I already saw it." Google…