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gMail 2?
Posted by Rod in Google at 4:41 pm on Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Is it just me or has Gmail just changed? Seems to be more ajaxy, pop up stuff going on with contacts etc.

What else does it do?

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Comments(10)

    Comment by Ben Kepes at 4:54 pm on 25 March 2008

    Mine still looks the same - and I’m set to English (US) and automatically run with latest versions

    Got a screen shot?




    Comment by Rod at 5:05 pm on 25 March 2008

    Not of my mail :)




    Comment by Phil at 5:48 pm on 25 March 2008

    Are you using google apps Rod? I understand they’ve pushed the latest updates to Apps users in the last few days.

    http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/newest-gmail-features-now-available-for.html




    Comment by Rob Coup at 6:05 pm on 25 March 2008

    Yeah, it changed a while ago but its only recently been moved to Google Apps (if thats what you’re using). Labels can now be coloured & the contacts shortcut stuff is nicer.

    The gmail team has a blog at http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/




    Comment by Simeon Pilgrim at 7:33 pm on 25 March 2008

    If you talking about normal gmail view, you can swap back to the older UI by placing ui=1 on the URL eg http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

    The new ui is value 2, this can also be archived by pressing…. oh it seams that ui=2 is no longer an option…. maybe I was a beta tester, anyway I didn’t like it myself, and stuck with ui=1




    Comment by Bruce Hoult at 8:08 pm on 25 March 2008

    Have you by any chance only just switched to Safari 3 (or 3.1)? That causes gmail to give Safari some more stuff that Firefox had for a while already.




    Comment by bumperbox at 8:38 pm on 25 March 2008

    changing the language to US english worked for me




    Comment by kent at 12:41 pm on 26 March 2008

    Gmail can now be easily mapped to your own domain via Google Apps. Good riddance Outlook.




    Comment by Chris Barrett at 6:53 pm on 26 March 2008

    And finally Chat works in Safari




    Comment by Ben Copsey at 8:30 pm on 26 March 2008

    Is it just me or is anyone else seeing some odd behavior with Gmail now they’ve applied the latest safari update?

    Specifically, randomly shifting focus away from the main email body field.