I’ve recently taken a liking to Gmail’s built-in web interface to Google Talk. However, since I started using it for most of my chatting activities, I’ve noticed an odd bug.
If you hover over a contact and then click on the “Video and More” button, you get a nifty menu like this:
What I’m interested in is the option to “Always show” or “Never show” a contact. If I have a contact that I don’t talk to very often, or if a contact has several accounts but only uses one of them most of the time, I may want to hide some of them from my list. Additionally, there are some people that I might want to have on my list all the time, and not have them hidden at Google’s whim if I don’t talk to them very often.
Well, for some contacts, this setting seemed to be stuck on “Auto.” You could make a selection, and a confirmation message would appear at the top of the screen, but the behavior of the contact on the list would not change, and if you pull up the menu again, it’s still there on “Auto.”