Finally, my prayers have been heard and my Gmail account was upgraded to the newer version. It is as sweet as was promised. Message pre-loading makes sorting through mail in morning extremely fast. New contact manager is indeed much better than the old, dare I say, address book.  It still misses a few things, like fields for URLs.
Now I’m waiting for all those Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts that I use to beautify and customize Gmail to get updated and work with the new version.
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David Webb
// Nov 8, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I just got upgraded the other day too. But I didn’t notice much speed increase, as my Firefox runs sloooooww. Probably due to the myriad of extensions.
And somehow my contact manager won’t show up. I was looking forward to the new features, but something seems to have gone wrong here. Oh well, best of luck with your new Gmail.
Cheers,
David
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Leonid Mamchenkov
// Nov 8, 2007 at 1:49 pm
David,
sorry to hear that.
My Firefox runs slow too - I’m having plenty of extensions myself. But the difference in message opening is huge. Also, I have this feeling that Firefox is a bit faster since the upgrade of GMail - maybe because of JavaScript changes that they did, or maybe because of something else… too early to say.
The contact manager works OK, although I caught it twice not being able to save data - I think maybe the server was busy or something. I went through a lot of contacts though, and couldn’t save only two, which is sort of not bad, but not as good as Google can deliver.
I’ll need more time to play with this new thing and see how it behaves, but for now I’m really happy for the message pre-fetching. It makes A LOT OF difference for me.
Hope they’ll fix it up for you too.
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Andrey V
// Nov 8, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Awesome awesome awesome …
*/me continued checking all the update of GMail*
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