{"id":3660,"date":"2012-09-18T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=12233"},"modified":"2012-09-18T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:29:38","slug":"gmail-support-when-you-dont-have-chat-in-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/gmail-support-when-you-dont-have-chat-in-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail Support: When You Don\u2019t Have Chat in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/product\/gmail\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Image representing Gmail as depicted in CrunchBase\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0001\/2806\/12806v21-max-450x450.png\" alt=\"Image representing Gmail as depicted in CrunchBase\" width=\"130\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps off topic but I wanted to post it for others to find when they have the same problem I did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem: you can&#8217;t get chat to open in Gmail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even if the icon for it is showing, clicking it does nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The icon, usually in the lower left of the page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12234 alignleft\" title=\"Google-Chat-in-gmail-icon\" src=\"http:\/\/d11be2feca2wef.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Google-Chat-in-gmail-icon.png\" alt=\"Google Chat Icon\" width=\"38\" height=\"36\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Google the problem and the best you will come up with is <a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/chat\/bin\/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=46757\">this page<\/a>, which was no help to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution: close and reopen gmail.<\/strong> Then click the icon. BTW that can fix a lot of problems in gmail or calendar. I find both\u00a0 can responding after a few days of being open in Chrome for OS X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=e04fb91f-f6cf-4efb-a8cd-7667868da8ee\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O3aqqP0H34yjgVmYynO1ck7lfpA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O3aqqP0H34yjgVmYynO1ck7lfpA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O3aqqP0H34yjgVmYynO1ck7lfpA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/O3aqqP0H34yjgVmYynO1ck7lfpA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/OEvU7hD_aCE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is perhaps off topic but I wanted to post it for others to find when they have the same problem I did. Problem: you can&#8217;t get chat to open in Gmail. Even if the icon for it is showing, clicking it does nothing. The icon, usually in the lower left of the page: &#160; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,344,947,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmail","category-google","category-google-chat","category-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}