Attaching attachments in Gmail

Recently, Gmail changed how one can attach an attachment in the mail.

Though, its a welcome change, allowing users to attach multiple files at a time and also see the progress of the same. But, I am facing this issue all the time - whenever I select a file(s) to be uploaded, the uploading invariably fails in the first attempt. And this is not restricted to a particular type of file like .doc or .pdf or something but is a uniform phenomena.

Is it only me or someone else encountered this? Though I have reported it to Gmail, I am not sure if its a specific problem or other users are also facing it!

Forgotten Attachment detector

Gmail introduced this feature in September 2008. I really liked this feature because after working for 3 years,I realised that forgetting to attach a file is one of the most errors that happens while one is sending like umpteen mails daily.

But, when it was introduced, I tested it twice or thrice and it did NOT seem to work. I decided to give feedback to Google for the same but discovered that many other avid Gmail users seem to have noticed that this feature is really not working. But I did not disable this feature from the Lab Settings.

MBA, to a large extent requires a lot of e-mail exchange throughout the day and lot of attachments are exchanged on an hourly basis. But my memory seem to have never disappointed me and I almost never forgot to attach the required file in the mail.

But today morning, it happened! I wrote a mail to a prof and hit that sent button and voila, a small pop-up window was there, staring at me and saying - "It seems you have forgotten to attach a document". I thanked Gmail from core of my heart for coming out with this brilliant feature :) :)

Just wondering, if MS Outlook can come up with something similar!