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New navigation bar style!

Zim [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, February 17, 2011
13 years ago9,279 views

From Gmail, I'm seeing a new navigation bar on top. It looks awesome!
It's light-gray, the e-mail address has been hidden (good move!) and replaced by my name (privacy: +1) and all the clutter of settings, labs, help, logout, etc has been moved to a small (but yet notable) gear icon at the top right corner.
I like it! Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/Tz6e7.jpg

Detail:
http://i.imgur.com/Hq0to.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/90YFm.jpg

I can see this in at least two accounts I use.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

I like!
Massive improvement, even though I hadn't noticed anything wrong with the bar before :)
Only seeing it on Gmail on my PC. Not seeing it on any services on my Laptop. (Same account)

mbegin [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

They have been testing this for awhile and it appears that it's now rolling out to everyone... I've been seeing it more and more on different computers over the last few days.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-tests-new-navigation-bar.html

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-tests-navigation-bar-integrated.html

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/02/googles-new-navigation-bar-publicly.html

WebSonic.nl [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

It's very nice! to bad it isn't on the Dutch version yet.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

It's funny how the "Even More" option (on the "More" menu) actually leads to fewer options than you can get to directly from Gmail.

There was once a time when "Even More" was packed full of interesting services.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

I've been seeing this too. It doesn't happen every time but shows up a lot when I'm trying to access my iGoogle page.

beussery [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

same here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/beussery/GoogleDesignTesting#

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

One more click is now needed if you want to log out.
Google wants to keep its users logged in?

desalvionjr [PersonRank 2]

13 years ago #

same here... I was about to post a screenshot to twitter then thought I would see if anyone here has seen it.... anyone think this is the next step in googles social networking mission?

Zim [PersonRank 10]

13 years ago #

Now I'm at home and I don't see it. Even after a fresh reload. The only things that changed are my IP (same ISP though) and OS (I was using Ubuntu, now I'm on Win7).
I guess it will be fully rolled out soon anyway.

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