Bug: replying in gMail with keyboard shortcuts

I love optimizing small tasks and saving the most time I can, even if they are seconds. I love keyboard shortcuts.

There is a keyboard shortcut for replying to messages in gMail, R, I try to move around in gMail as much as I can with the keyboard only, it's a bit faster. But I've noticed than from some time ago, weeks or perhaps months, don't know for sure, Every time I press "R" to reply to a message, it seems as if I had pressed "A", which is the shortcut for Reply to All, and if the message has been sent to more than one recipient (for example, with copies to others), then I find myself writing a reply to a lot of persons.

Normally I notice this and correct it as soon as I can, but I've missed it a few times, so far I haven't had any real issues or big embarrassment, just sent unsolicited or irrelevant messages to people sometimes I don't even know, but for sure this is something it should not be happening, it's certainly a bug. I'll report it to gMail staff...

Wait, I've been trying to reproduce this bug again but I can't, either this has been fixed or I can't reproduce the exact context in which I get it. I think it only happened when I had a new message in a new conversation, and I hadn't read it before (brand new), so I'll wait and see, is anybody else having this problem?

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Monitoring gMail Activity, arrives to my account!

I have it and I love it! I don't know exactly when did this feature became available but it's nice to already have it...

There was a button that read something like "Sign out all other accounts", though a message above stated "It looks like there are no other sessions currently opened in this account". I will update my password nevertheless...

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gMail login details for the paranoid!

If you are paranoid like me, you will love this new feature Google is slowly starting to roll out! Now you can check if your gMail account is opened in another place (browser, mobile POP3...) simultaneously, and it's IP address.

Read more about it in the official gMail blog.

You can even sign out remotely your account from the footer of your gMail, and view some details of the other sessions. Nice!

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Firefox Add on messing up gMail

There is an extension in Firefox that messes with my gMail, but I am too lazy to search one by one to discover which one is it.

Actually, I think I already identified it, it must be either Web Developer or Tab Mix Plus (which by the way is not yet available, at least from the official site, for Firefox 3 and this is why I haven't installed the latest version of Firefox on my main PC).

The problem is when it comes to download things; while downloading files, sometimes (I think always or at least very often) when I try to download an attachment from a message the page goes blank... you can download the file but then the window doesn't display anything (like if it was an empty website, in white background and no text). Firefox continues to work normally, I can switch tabs and everything, even if I click on reload, it goes to that very same conversation (message), but this is not supposed to be and is very annoying.

I thought it was a problem with the not so new gMail interface, but the other day I was browsing in a computer from the school and I noticed that I didn't have that problem there, so I assumed it must be an extension.

Then, in another PC, which had installed only these two aforementioned add ons (which are essential for me in Firefox), the problem was there again. I think I should send this message to the developers of these plugins, maybe later on.

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