New version of Gmail is on its way!

Rumors about updating one of the main postal services in the world have been going for several months. The soil for them was the active gathering of users' wishes, arranged by the Gmail development team and metered leaks about future service capabilities.
And these rumors have been confirmed. Some users, accessing the web interfaces of their mailboxes, saw the link “newer version”.

Here is what is known from the reviews of rare lucky ones:

• In the "To" field you can now write the name of the contact group
• The loading time of the “Inbox” has increased slightly, but the display of the loaded messages has become almost instantaneous

At the same time, some users of the new interface speak of its general slowness and instability, which is surprising for Google's web service.
Well, judging by the reviews, the new version is still in the testing phase and will be available to a wide range of users after all.

PS But didaio review:

sharing impressions:
I immediately opened a new version. in the top menu link is “Older version”.

On the changes have already unsubscribed in the official blog Gmeyl. It:
- Pre-processing of messages, allowing you to open them much faster;
- new contact view;
- cosmetic chat improvements (brief info on contacts; there are available links to add a contact and change chat display settings);
- Each page mailer acquired a unique address, following the example of Reader. so now they can be bookmarked;
- when creating a message, it became possible to send a calendar event;
- in the list More actions, which became a bit more beautiful, was added:
- search for similar messages (automatic filter creation);
- the ability to ignore (Mute) this and the following similar messages (automatically sends to the archive).
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Of the minuses:
- the box opens longer (due to the pre-processing of messages);
- more time is required to switch between folders and labels (the reason is the same);
- third-party programs (for example, Gmail Notifier) ​​stopped working, but GMail was assured that they had contacted their developers and provided all the necessary data for a quick fix;

It upsets that practically no changes were made to the mailer interface, and other trifles were not eliminated, which personally annoyed me a little. For example, a way to invite people to chat. Frustrating and the lack of new features in the settings.

But as Gmail wrote on the blog, the changes made in the engine will make it easier to add new features and connect the gmail with other services. Those. the guys are actively moving to launch Maka-maka (codename social network from Google, who does not know).

The speed of downloading messages from the Inbox really pleases. They open almost instantly. And you don’t pay much attention to delays in loading other folders. There really is some couple of seconds.

A new view of contacts is very happy! The previous ones were horror-horror.

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