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Gmail's "Report Bug" Link

Heebie Sudoku [PersonRank 5]

Monday, August 14, 2006
17 years ago3,551 views

Hi guys – just noticed this – Gmail's got a new "Report Bug" link on the top-right hand corner of the screen.

There's a screenshot at: http://www.heebie.co.uk/bug.png

and the link links to: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?ctx=%67mail&direct=1

Ludwik Trammer [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Wow, I don't have this...

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

neither have I

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I have this since about a week, but I no bug for the moment, so useless for me (-:

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[put at-character here]Heebie and Tom

What country is your Gmail Account set to?

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

"English (US)"

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

So's mine, I've tried enabeling different things on my account, still no link.

NateDawg [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Still nothing for me either (English "US")

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

http://www.reviewsaurus.com/2006/08/report-bug-new-link-in-gmail.html

and for those who dont have bug link can click below and report....
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?ctx=%67mail&direct=1

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I have that too and used it before... no (human) reply on my bug report yet tho.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I think the EU and UK DC's are running slightly tweaked gmail s/w.. remember the in the UK they use googlemail.com rather then the conventional gmail.com ext..

The report bug link was a hot link for the roll over for those users . (I think!!)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

<< I think the EU and UK DC's are running slightly tweaked gmail ... >>

/pd: Even if I login from the USA, I still don't get the link. Weird. Maybe they've just rolled it out to only some users (as they do)...

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

==>> "Even if I login from the USA, I still don't get the link. "

but users from US/CA will never get that link, as they will be never be pointed to the DC which dishes out the googlemail.com service.. wich wold be a UK based DC!!

Not, sure if I am reading the issue right here..!!

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I don't think the googlemail.com / gmail.com domain is controlled by a different DC – I think it's just a login variable. Besides, I have a gmail.com address, so that wouldn't apply anyway (although, granted, I'm still a UK user).

Mambo [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Perhaps this is a sign that Gmail is coming out of beta, making sure there are no bugs remaining.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

tony: I was referin to this dispute

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/googlemail.html

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

/pd: I know ;-) but I don't understand what that has to do with whether the "Report bug" link displays.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

You can get all the "US" features by changing the language from "English (UK)" to "English (US)" It shouldn't matter where you are the page should be the same. (Until Google starts rolling stuff out)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Mrrix32: It's not as simple as that. I've always had my language set to "English (US)" and I often don't have new features before anyone else.

Heebie Sudoku [PersonRank 5]

17 years ago #

I was "English US" when I found the link. I've now changed it to "English UK" and it's still there. I'm a UK (googlemail) user; but as I signed up before the change I have @gmail.com as well.

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