Gmail hangs on loading, then displays error in Chrome
Posted on December 15th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been having issues with my Gmail while using the newest developer builds of Chrome. When clicking on an email message the loading display at the top of the screen would come on and it would just sit there for approximately 30 seconds before displaying an error message and then allowing normal use of email. I thought it may have been due to the dev build but it works fine running dev on my home machine.
Thankfully this one had a very simple solution. Click the wrench (settings) button. Go to Options. Personal Stuff, Clear Browsing Data… I only checked Clear Cache and set the Period to be ‘Everything’ and Gmail started working normal again.

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I’ve been having the same issue for the last two days, in Chrome, and clearing all browsing history doesn’t help.
This was a persistent issue that lead me away from using chrome (Ubuntu 11, x86). Everytime an update occurred I would check again and the crash continued to happen when I opened gmail.com. Cleared my entire history and now it is all good. Wish I had found this thread months ago.