I’ve noticed since yesterday that Gmail has been updated. It definitely has a “snappier” feel to it, so I guess they’ve implemented the message pre-loading that’s been mentioned on their blog. There also seems to be a slight colour change to various sections (i.e. the message labels when, say, archiving an email) and the popup when hovering the mouse over a contact in the email list has changed. I also notice I’ve now got an “Older version” link at the top of the page.
It’s curious that they haven’t notified users with their usual “New features” link. Perhaps they’re still rolling out.
Ironically, it’s now quicker to use the web app version of Gmail than it is to use their recent IMAP implementation through Thunderbird!
It’s good to see that Google are still developing Gmail. Who knows? One day we might even lose the Beta tag 
