Gmail Labs Edition has received three useful new features. For me, the nicest one of this bunch is the ability to re-arrange the side navigation. Also present are a selection of new label colours to use. And last but not least the addition of a Label search with auto-suggest.
In other Google happenings, a new web browser has been unleashed upon a relatively unsuspecting world, this really was a natural progression for Google at some point, it was only a matter of time, the age-old saga of a platform lockdown, Google control the apps, now the environment they run in also. Personally I think this is great as many of the applications I use on a daily basis are Google services anyway. Google Chrome is said to be optimized for Javascript heavy apps such as Gmail and Google Docs. There are many other common sense features available too, we all know how common browser freezes and memory leaks occur in current browsers. Chrome is different, it runs each tab as an individual process, and even provides a task manager with detailed stats on each tab and ability to kill a crashed page without affecting other open sessions.
It will be interesting to see how this affects the long-time browser wars.
Tags: Google Apps
