42 comments:
- Anonymous said...
google +1 is still missing...
- February 16, 2011 11:49 PM
- Andrex said...
The non-integration with Google Profiles certainly is perplexing.
- February 17, 2011 12:11 AM
- Jack Hynes said...
No Google Docs and Google Reader? I wish it was customisable, or at least you would have a few spare link spaces which could have whatever you wanted.
- February 17, 2011 12:16 AM
- Ron Amadeo said...
I want to customize the links!
- February 17, 2011 12:24 AM
- pvradu said...
google docs just got the new nav bar..
- February 17, 2011 12:44 AM
- Noam said...
In google chrome, switching the accounts will not work. Would you believe that? In GOOGLE chrome... :-)
- February 17, 2011 1:25 AM
- Anonymous said...
Now it takes two clicks to sign out?
That's 100% more clicking effort. And also some mouse movement. Why Google, why? I thought you were all about making life simpler...
- February 17, 2011 1:40 AM
- Beben said...
wow...good good
- February 17, 2011 1:43 AM
- Toby Adams said...
not in the uk, typical :-(
- February 17, 2011 1:49 AM
- luisgarr said...
Two clicks to sign out. Three clicks to switch account. :-(
Two thumbs down, usability of those features got 100% poorer.
- February 17, 2011 2:05 AM
- Alex Chitu said...
How often do you sign out? How often do you switch to a different account?
- February 17, 2011 2:26 AM
- Alex Chitu said...
An annoying side-effect of this change is that it's hard to tell which account you're currently using. If you sign in to multiple accounts and you use the same name for all your accounts, it's not that easy to distinguish the accounts. Maybe a profile image or a different color next to your name would solve this problem.
- February 17, 2011 3:04 AM
- collin said...
the color of the bar is quite disagreeable with my gmail background. why can't i customize the links? or why not prioritize them by the ones i click on most.
- February 17, 2011 3:05 AM
- Silviu said...
how to get it?
cz im romanian and i dont have it.
is a a link or something if it i want it ok.- February 17, 2011 5:22 AM
- jasonvaritekfan said...
@Alex: Yep, I have multiple sign-ins enabled and in the new bar, it takes three clicks to do when in the old bar only two two clicks.
Now you have to first click on your name, then on Switch account, and finally click on the account you want to log in to. Before, it was just clicking on your email address logged into and then on the account switching to.
I got the new bar last night, but I can't say if I'm either excited by it or not.
- February 17, 2011 5:26 AM
- Harry Kim said...
+1 for customizable links!
- February 17, 2011 6:07 AM
- David Knowles said...
It looks good, an I have always like the design, still wondering when us poor UK web users will get access to it.
- February 17, 2011 7:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
they dont put all services in the the navigation bar because not everybody has a cool resoulion
the majotiry of people have 1024x768. dont fit in the scren too many services.- February 17, 2011 7:30 AM
- Tom said...
Wow, sounds like they really made it worse.
The worst part though is that they still don't allow it to be customized. I'm assuming this is because they want to have sufficient control to promote certain services through that bar, but the cost in usability for medium and advanced users is pretty big.
- February 17, 2011 7:35 AM
- Surat said...
I like the look of the "Switch profiles" screen, though.
- February 17, 2011 7:37 AM
- Jake said...
Booo... they made it worse. Hate the new "Switch Account" link. How do I get the old one back!? Who do I complain to?
- February 17, 2011 8:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
So many people just whine and whine. It's so annoying to read. How entitled do you all feel? It's pathetic. 3 clicks to switch accounts instead of 2?? OH MY GOD, THE HORROR!!!!!! Pathetic.
- February 17, 2011 9:40 AM
- vicky said...
1. would like to customize links
2. and make the navigation bar transparent
3. fix/remove that thin blue line above the navigation bar—what's the use of it- February 17, 2011 9:41 AM
- David Knowles said...
Use the .co.uk domain for now to get the old bar back.
Personally, having just got it in my gmail, an finally able to get it on .com, I can see where google is going with this an what there thought process was. l
- February 17, 2011 10:26 AM
- darkrose said...
I don't want my full name showing in large type at the top of my Gmail page. Is there any way to change it to show my email address?
- February 17, 2011 11:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
Make Google Doc Offline...please!
- February 17, 2011 9:27 PM
- Man Mohan Singh said...
I m unable to see in india
- February 17, 2011 10:19 PM
- PC said...
Yea, I'm not a fan of the two-click sign out...on a notebook touch pad, that's a little more annoying....
- February 17, 2011 11:15 PM
- Roch Delsalle said...
I can't understand why I have it on firefox and not in Chrome... that's just stupid
- February 18, 2011 12:54 AM
- Anonymous said...
so when should we expect to hear about this in the news...ya know, a new security issue. I just heard a bunch of students talking about how they all were reading each others emails and sending emails to and from each other under different friend's accounts. good job google..another lawsuit in the making.
- February 18, 2011 7:01 AM
- Stephen Morrison said...
I'm seeing the new nav bar in every service. Seems like they have been slowly releasing it in each service over the past couple days. It also seems that some services show the email address while others show the name.
- February 18, 2011 9:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
One big problem with this: in gmail, I no longer have a "Manage this domain" link, anywhere in the UI.
- February 18, 2011 11:32 AM
- Anonymous said...
OK, now I see it. They have an orphaned link on the far right side. Obviously they couldn't figure out where to put this in the new navbar, so they just stuck it over there by itself.
Lame.
- February 18, 2011 11:38 AM
- Anonymous said...
had in in the netherlands, came back to germany and it was gone!
that sucks!
- February 18, 2011 12:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
I hate the blue bar @ the top of my gmail, messes with my cool theme :(
- February 18, 2011 2:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
1) Double-click sign out is a hassle. This is not complaining, it is fact. Many people (myself included) find it a necessary practice to sign out often.
2) I am not interested in having my name displayed for everyone to see. I don't need Google to tell me my name. I do need to know which account I am in and I much prefer to not bleed time for that information.
The interface looks better, but the usability and security changes cause a large negative net effect on my user experience.
- February 18, 2011 4:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
I don't want my full name showing in large type at the top of my Gmail page. When I'm in a public place (bus, subway, airplane, etc), I do NOT want my name to be prominently displayed.
PLEASE let me have some privacy.
How can I opt out of this new setup?
- February 18, 2011 7:22 PM
- Dish Network TV Blog said...
Pretty lame!
- February 18, 2011 7:27 PM
- Era Brown said...
Perfect, but dont working google turkish, so never mind..
- February 19, 2011 2:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
Where is the sign-out ? Looks like google doesn't want its users to sign out ever..
- February 20, 2011 8:43 PM
- Max said...
1) I hate like the double click signout.
Any people with more than one account need to sign out often.2) I need to know the account I'm in, not my name.
3) I do prefer the old navbar.
- February 21, 2011 2:48 PM
- robn said...
I get the new nav bar in both my Education and Standard edition Apps accounts, but only from my office, never from home. After some testing I found that I only get it if I'm connected to Google via IPv6, never via IPv4. Does anyone else have the same experience?
- February 21, 2011 3:28 PM
