The new "Abort/Retry/Ignore/Fail"

is Gmail's little red "Loading" message in the top right hand corner of the screen. At least when one is attempting to read Gmail on a dodgy Internet connection. It symbolises a frozen browser screen that eventually has to be crashed, resuming a painful login process all over again. Something about the way that Gmail encrypts login information while trying to access multiple servers (to set up links with all the services it now owns) interacts badly with less-then-optimal Internet service. There's a market opportunity there for somebody.