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O.P. Tongue  New Gmail Code Launched
A few days ago (maybe a week or so?) Gmail posted saying they were modifying their code to load faster and work better in all browsers.  I thought Gmail was very snappy as it is, but obviously someone didnt.  They just launched the new Gmail Version (thus, the big "Older Version" and "Newer Version", depending which you're using, in the top right of the page).  I think the newer version is far slower and overall less visually pleasing (it looks like a matching style isnt even used on parts of it).  As of this post, no official announcement has yet been made.  Opinions anyone?
11-08-2007 06:18 AM
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RE: New Gmail Code Launched
the newer version feels alot faster :D and the new greasemonkey api is leet (http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/wiki/...lGreasemonkey10API)

they are still activating it for people afaik. mine got changed to the new version a couple of days ago, but it was announced a few weeks ago ;o

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/code-change...are-gmail-for.html

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11-08-2007 06:31 AM
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RE: New Gmail Code Launched
The newer version takes more time to load but once it has done that, the mail handling part is faster. It must be said though that on the new gmail, the inbox width (the part showing the mail details) is small then a fraction after I open up the tab (I open gmail and a few other sites at a time and then come back wen gmail has loaded).
This snappy quality and the increase in initial load times are points of concern for me. Other than that, its quite good :)
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RE: New Gmail Code Launched
IMO, it loaded faster here and navigation is a lot faster too :)

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the newer version feels alot faster (Smilie) and the new greasemonkey api is leet (http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/wiki/GmailGreasemonkey10API)
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Greasemonkey is an integral part of the web experience for many experienced users. Google acknowledges that some people are going to change their own experience of our web applications regardless of what we do. Resistance, as they say, is futile. It would also be somewhat hypocritical. After all, a Google employee wrote Greasemonkey in the first place, another wrote these scripts to add functionality to Gmail, and a third wrote two books on the subject (and these docs).

Instead, we would like to provide a little help to make such scripts more robust. Instead of finding elements by XPath or DOM traversal, this API provides accessor methods for getting common screen elements. Instead of forcing you to monkey-patch (ahem) our internal functions, this API provides callbacks to call your functions when specific events occur.

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RE: New Gmail Code Launched
Opening mail seems to be a lot faster for me - i think it precaches it or something like that?

Although i agree with Dane - it takes longer to load initially, some GUI elements don't seem to be consistent or match, the new contacts pane (which i rarely use anyways) takes forever to load, gtalk on the left hand side takes ages and ages to load and i just get this buggy unresponsive feeling about it sometimes! I'm sure they'll fix all the problems soonish but yeah its definitely not perfect!
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11-08-2007 07:17 AM
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RE: New Gmail Code Launched
Working faster on my end too :P I love it :D
11-08-2007 05:59 PM
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As a side note, GMail now also offers IMAP, which is better than the old POP3 support if you like to use a real email client instead of webmail (or both).  With the ability to use it for your own domains (Google Apps) it's has become pretty much the ideal email solution.
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RE: New Gmail Code Launched
Same as always for me, i can't really say if it's slower or faster...
IMAP is really slow to use, though :| I prefer the web version.
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RE: New Gmail Code Launched
It seems everyone around me is getting the new version. :(

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I haven't got the option to use the new version either :(
11-09-2007 04:31 AM
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