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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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  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. 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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