Some google services seem to be crashing the tab in my Firefox (but me only, since this bug has been there for many months now and I reported the crash with URL a bunch of times), I remember street view for sure but recently there was another, don't remember the name. (I don't use google services that frequently aside from pulling youtube content.)
Anyway, point is, browsers aren't infallible either and google is known to make their software work only in google-branded browsers. I'm not sure that a really stupid bug in $someSoftware is a good argument for why we should move everything into the browser, or a Google product in particular (why not bring up roundcube or runbox or something?).
Some google services seem to be crashing the tab in my Firefox (but me only, since this bug has been there for many months now and I reported the crash with URL a bunch of times), I remember street view for sure but recently there was another, don't remember the name. (I don't use google services that frequently aside from pulling youtube content.)
Anyway, point is, browsers aren't infallible either and google is known to make their software work only in google-branded browsers. I'm not sure that a really stupid bug in $someSoftware is a good argument for why we should move everything into the browser, or a Google product in particular (why not bring up roundcube or runbox or something?).