Yet Another gMail Bug: Screen Update Lag

I've been really annoyed lately with a new "feature" in gMail.

I send an email. The recipient responds. The list of emails in the main email window updates to show an excerpt of the new email (see the first image). I click on that link to see the email. The window displays the email I sent (or the entire thread up to that point) but not the newly received email (see the second image). Refreshing the screen corrects the problem.

This is happening on OS X Snow Leopard with Chrome. If they can't get this right in their own browser....

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gMail Broken?

For the past several days I've been noticing anomalous behavior in gMail:

The summary line for the email in the mail browser shows 5 messages and an excerpt from the fifth but when I click on the email link I see only four (or fewer) emails and the one that is excerpted in the list is missing.
Email sent from one gMail account to another take extremely long to deliver and in some cases never arrive.

I see these problems in Chrome, Firefox and Safari with increasing frequency.

Anyone else?