I don’t give a rats arrrr’s if somehow this is my fault!!. . . . but really?
What I’ve been putting up with for the past couple of months has become intolerable, unworkable and bordering on the almost insane. Ummm . . . but please stick with my story.
For my email I use gmail. For the simple reason that changing ISP’s in the past has rendered the email address useless (I’m sure most of us have been there).
Just creating an email using gmail has become an almost futile exercise. Resulting in absurd, stupid and downright acceptable “fist slamming” on my computer keyboard.
What happens is this:
When I “compose” a new message, sometimes the input text box says TO: then it may change to RECIPIENTS: depending on it’s “whim” which I am not privy to. Even so, I accept that as some sort of whichever way, but then It gets worse.
When I type into the recipients panel it takes almost 10 seconds to come up with the “suggested” text. Fine, I could almost accept that. But what is far far far far far worse, is that when I start to type into the message panel (having been selected by the usual accepted method of clicking into it, and confirmed via the the cursor flashing in that field) The cursor jumps back to the recipients panel. Yes, jumps back to the recipient panel. Without my consent or knowledge. And then, do it again. Utterly absurd!!!
I’ve also noticed that when using google I usually could “right click” and have a contextual menu (mostly for spelling) but that takes 10-15secs to come up, if at all. (Firefox+WIN7)
My first thought is a Virus. But I have a well known brand of virus protection and have seen no warnings.
Either I have a virus that my virus protection program cannot evaluate or even give a reasonable warning about!, or I have a virus that my virus protection is able to be overridden, and someone, somewhere is taking control of my computer. OR perhaps due to his late night coding episodes, Steve Kelepouris has finally gone completely fcking mad!!
But seriously - I’m having a big issue using gmail. Has anyone else experienced something like this?