New Version Of GMail
Posted in Idling on 11/06/2007 07:37 am by foolhandy
Lucky me! I’m one of probably millions of those who have had the revised version of GMail / Google Mail made available to them. The full list of changes have been written about here but in short the key differences are this :
- Your e-mail address is now shown in the address bar
- You can “mute” dull conversations so they skip the Inbox automatically
- There’s a fancy new contacts interface (easily the weakest part of GMail before I think)
- A new “Filter messages like these” option appears in the message drop down
- If I needed to I could use IMAP
- You can use AOL chat. Should you want to…
- The contacts pictures integrate with Picasa Web, should you use it
And that’s it…
There are probably other things too, and I can switch back if I want. I’ve noticed none of the other minor teething troubles I’ve read about in a quick search of the net, and it’s certainly not as horrible as the Yahoo! and Hotmail updates.
It’s OK. Shame the CustomizeGoogle add-on to Firefox doesn’t seem to work with it though. I can see the spam counter & adverts again now…
11/06/2007 at 10:08 am
I have it too. I don’t notice any difference, really, but perhaps that’s the point.
What is a ‘dull’ conversation?
11/06/2007 at 3:34 pm
They really are, thankfully, minor differences.
A ‘dull’ conversation? The ones to do with work where people click ‘reply all’…
And alive-ness? Well it was silent on all fronts for quite a while.
11/07/2007 at 8:49 am
Ah, I see what you mean by dull now. Silence? I’ve actually been getting on with some work! YAY!