Answers: Why disabling chrome images turns off gmail chat?

arulappan

I disabled automatic loading of images in chrome (via settings/content settings/Do not show any images).

Then I refreshed my gmail(where I was available on gmail chat earlier) page. Now gmail chat says this: "Unable to reach Gmail. Please check your internet connection or company's network settings". And no contacts are visible. But my network is fine and other sites are loading perfectly.

Is this the expected behavior of gmail chat or am I experiencing any other problem?

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windows 7 - Google Chrome - create gmail application shortcut

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Gero

Since I've started using Chrome I occasionally try to create a Gmail application shortcut - but without success yet. My Chrome version right now is 4.0.249.89 (beta) and OS Windows 7 (Home Premium) - but it didn't work with previous Chrome versions / Windows XP on a different computer either.
The Gmail icon is is not displayed in the shortcut creation dialog and no shortcut is created when clicking 'ok'.

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Does everyone on Chrome experience this? Is there a way to fix it?
Application shortcuts for other sites / google web-apps (calendar/docs) work just as expected.

(Please don't post workarounds - I know how to create an application shortcut/icon manually - I'm just curious about this oddity with the built in way to do it)