July 28, 2004
massive gmail update
After weeks without any major changes, Gmail, the Google webmail system, just got a massive feature update -- a new favicon (site icon) . With awesome improvenents like the addition of this new M-velope icon, it'll be no time before people are storming the gates to get an account.
Honestly, the service is (IMO) far from being ready for public use.
Conversation threading is buggy at best, from my experience (come on, I'm CC:d on about twenty bugs on Bugzilla, yet I have over 200 different topics in my box, when there should be thirty at most covering every bug and bugs that have been renamed.).
They _need_ to implement a way for people to manage their conversation threading, because the system just doesn't cut it yet.
Posted by: Markus Lindström on July 28, 2004 09:55 AMI'm not seeing this update at all, and there's nothing on the "what's new" page. Where's the beef?
Posted by: grayrest on July 28, 2004 10:08 AMNoticed the favicon, even if it doesn't always show-up.
For the bunch if massive updates or Asa is referring to those of two weeks ago, or he is on a different "branch" of the service and get the changes before the rest of us :)
I'm fairly certain that this post was sarcasm... ie - a new favicon is NOT a massive feature. ;)
Posted by: Tim Meader on July 28, 2004 10:20 AMI'm not seeing anything -- literally. Just a blank page if I use firefox for the mac.
Posted by: Andy Fyfe on July 28, 2004 10:23 AMMassive update? Honestly, I don't think a new favicon and the addition of a few features everyone else has qualifies as a _massive_ update.
Posted by: AJ on July 28, 2004 10:55 AMIs left click on an e-mail address in GMail broken for everybody else too?
Posted by: Bo on July 28, 2004 11:04 AMThat new Gmail favicon was out several days ago (maybe previous week, not sure). I found it much better than the original "G" favicon...
Posted by: minghong on July 28, 2004 11:36 AMI noticed this a few days ago too... It's cool.
oh, and bo: yea, thats happened to me too. Didn't it used to open a gmail compose window? If you need it really bad, try getting the Gmail compose extention... its on update.mozilla.org.
Posted by: Joey on July 28, 2004 12:14 PMThe secure version of Gmail ( https://gmail.google.com/gmail ) still lacks a favicon :(
Posted by: Jesse Ruderman on July 28, 2004 12:32 PMWeird, I do see it at work on https, not at home. Moz 1.8a2 at work, 1.8a1 at home. I do like that favicon, simple, and very recognizable.
Btw, what do I need to do before I receive invites on my account? I'd love to share gmail with some friends who are very eager to try it out...
afaik they've slowed down (to a stop?) on the invites...
Posted by: sunilonln on July 28, 2004 01:26 PMAndy Fyfe: I had the same problem, fixed it by just clearing my cache
Posted by: Alex C-G on July 28, 2004 01:55 PMI'm since a week back or so having problems with Firefox just displaying a blank page at http://gmail.google.com. httpS works on the other hand. And I guess you should use the encrypted version anyway. But it would still be good to know what's causing this?
I'm usually on nightlies, and always install into an empty folder. (preserving the profile though, could that be it??)
^--- Ooops, ignore that *blush*
I need to read the *complete* thread before posting. :-P
Excellent... I sent them an email a few weeks ago asking them to use the M envelope, albeit probably along with about a million other users ;-)
For sites that aren't so compliant, is there a way (or room for an extension?) to add/change favicons for bookmarks/sites? I find them really useful.