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Google Begins "Gmail 2.0" Rollout

Posted by kdawson on from the still-the-same-primary-colors dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "Google on Tuesday confirmed it is giving Gmail a new look. This blog post has screenshots of a new Gmail interface that has been made available to a limited number of users. They are calling it "Gmail 2.0" even if Google isn't. Google confirmed the update is underway at its new San Francisco office, just prior to a briefing on an unrelated upcoming Google announcement. A Google spokesperson said that the new look has been made available to about one percent of all Gmail users and is being rolled out the rest on an ongoing basis."

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  1. JavaScript back-end? by jeks · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite...

    I highly doubt that GMail uses JavaScript on the back-end. In fact, it is pretty well known that GMail is written in Java and only uses JavaScript on the front-end.

  2. Faster access due to pre-fetching and caching by jbarr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently, one of Google's goal in releasing this new version is to provide a new code framework that will help them to speed up Gmail's response time in a number of areas. One feature of note is that Gmail now pre-fetches and caches messages in the current view, so when you click on a message, it loads almost instantly. On my broadband connection, I see much improved response--clicking a message now displays it almost instantly--no lags or delays.

    -Jim
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    1. Re:Faster access due to pre-fetching and caching by jbarr · · Score: 4, Informative

      >>Apparently it crashes Opera faster than ever.

      Until Google develops to make it more compatible with Opera, you may want to either try the "Older version" link at the top of the page, or the "Basic HTML" link at the bottom. At least they're providing viable options.

      -Jim
      http://gmailtips.com/

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  3. Re:[whine]... by Gleng · · Score: 5, Informative

    IMAP seem to be only rolled out to people with English(US) language settings at the moment. To enable IMAP, I had to:

    1) Change the language setting from English(UK) to English(US).
    2) Go back to settings, and then into the newly available "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab.
    3) Enable IMAP.
    4) Configure my client (Thunderbird) and make a successful connection.
    5) Go back into the settings, and change the language back to English(UK). The "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab changes back to just "Forwarding and POP".
    6) Continue using my sweet, sweet, IMAP.

    This method is hit and miss it seems. But hopefully some people might be lucky.

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  4. Re:2.0? by nschubach · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm guessing they are calling it 2.0 because of the URL: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2 instead of http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

    But they should be calling it Gmail UI2 instead of 2.0.

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  5. Re:is 2.0 automatically secure? by Chroniton · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just use the Customize Google firefox plugin. It will automatically do that for you.

  6. Just start there by chphilli · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just set your bookmark to https://mail.google.com/ - you'll start & stay in SSL. I've been doing this for a really long time ( I can't remember when I even created the bookmarks I have in all my browsers to do exactly this. )

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