If you’ve got desktop notifications enabled for Google’s Gmail email service, in the past few days you may have been seeing not one but two alerts come up every time a new email arrives in your inbox, with the second one popping up a few seconds after the first one disappears. Turns out that it’s not just you.
Today three separate people mentioned the issue in the Gmail help forum. The bug appears to date back to Friday, April 15.
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No, this is not a massive problem — hey, at least it’s not an outage! — but if you get a lot of email, and if you also receive desktop notifications for other services, this issue can be a little bit frustrating.
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Gmail has more than 1 million active users, Google said in February.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Update on April 23: I’m no longer seeing this issue. Some people were tweeting about it as recently as yesterday.
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