gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07 ...

Basically Google is rolling out the option to always use a https: address rather than the http: one. There's been quite a few GM scripts to do this for a while, but they are officialy adding it in the settings now.

I don't have it yet :(

[Moved from "Gmail Square and https", these were posted almost at the same time... -Philipp]

That little square in the top left hand corner of Gmail has gone now.

And they've added a option to always use https in the settings. I haven't got this yet though. gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07 ...

Awesome, now I can just type in gmail.com instead of https:// mail.google.com everytime I am on somebody else's computer! :)

This is indeed very helpful.

[Moved from "New HTTPS config option turns Gmail Notifier unusable"]

I have observed that when I set the gmail option to always use HTTPS for browser connections Gmail Notifier starts getting an error message saying the "server is unavailable". It will only start functioning again if I go back and choose not to use HTTPS anymore.

This needs to be fixed.

also Gmail for mobile (java app) seems to be affected by the global https switch :|

Google Talk's mail notifier is not affected. I think it is recieving those notifications via the XMPP protocol.

The Gmail Notifier seems to be affected. I turn HTTPS on, it stops working. I turn it off, it works again.

Nifty. If only there was a setting to "always use ui=1"...

Read this: [ for mobile users]
mail.google.com/support/bin/an ...

I do not have this option on my Gmail account?

When this option will be available in Google Apps? I use Gmail for my domain and I cannot force the https :(

I was always using this option when starting surfing gmail from this url: https ://mail.google.com/mail

cheers

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Why is Google not using an Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificate for GMAIL?