Vista - Google using Gmail to convert IE users to Firefox, Chrome

Beyond pushing Chrome on google.com and planning to roll it out with OEMs, Google has found a new way to tell users about its browser. This time, the search giant is targeting IE users who use Gmail. With a simple "Get faster Gmail" message (which only appears in IE, and not in Safari, Firefox, or Chrome), Google is luring users of its e-mail service to a support page which explains that IE is slow at running Gmail:

Browsers are getting faster and better at running web applications like Google Mail that use browser technology to its limits. In order to get the best experience possible and make Google Mail run an average of twice as fast, we suggest that you upgrade your browser to one of the fastest Google Mail supported browsers that work on Windows.

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Thanks for the info Slimy, don't think I'll bother I know it can play havoc with posts on some forums putting unwanted characters into replies, they don't even show in a preview just after being posted

I use Chrome and I've not known it do to that?

I used Avant for years, switched to Firefox just 6 months ago and found it sloooowwwwwwwww.......real slow. With only the few plugins I needed it loaded pages like old dialup did, in little slices and painfully slow on a super fast connection.

I tried Chrome the week it came out and the speed was like...Wow..I have fast browsing again! I'd like to see Chrome support RoboForm since I use that extensively.

I also have never seen that behavior you posted about Joan.

Maybe Joan wasn't using Chrome 1.0?

No I don't use it but have seen the results of it in another forum I belong to and I think the explanation for it was it had to do with the software that the forum used.

I use IE7Pro for all my browsing