Google has always added great security features that protect user accounts: from SSL access to most services, Google Safe Browsing, Gmail’s spam and phishing filters to 2-step authentication, phone number verification and Gmail’s account activity monitoring. Sometimes Google’s security features are extra paranoid and block Google’s own services. I tried to use the mail fetcher…

Last year, Google’s Adam Langley, Nagendra Modadugu, and Bodo Moeller proposed SSL False Start, a client-side only change to reduce one round-trip from the SSL handshake. We implemented SSL False Start in Chrome 9, and the results are stunning, yielding a significant decrease in overall SSL connection setup times. SSL False Start reduces the latency…