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.
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
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. :)
Awesome awesome awesome …
*/me continued checking all the update of GMail*