Oh, thank the Heavens!

Thanks! It's cool news!

great news!!!!!
i was about to die from that..

Chat now works over https through gmail too!

it's really bother that there is no possibility of away and invisible!
why do i have to be online or busy all the time? what if i'm at work and can't talk to everybody?
it's just anooying.

orli, you can use "Gmail view: standard without chat". Another way, you can use "Busy" status or choice "Sign out of chat" from status menu.

Popups gone only from mail list, but showed if hover in Quick Contacts.

yeah. i know that but what's the use?
let say i want to stay online and be away?
this one i can't understand why google don't provid with.
and what about some sound? (i agree that should be a choice)

Great news :)

I guess I'm the only one that found them useful.
I didn't use them for the chat button, but I liked having quick access to the "Contact details" & "Recent conversations" links.
I'll miss them. Google should make them an option in the settings.

I think they should find a better way to integrate them, and in the meantime it's good that they're gone. For example, a small chat icon next to the name when you open the email could be nice – it would trigger the popup on click (not on hover).

popup on click is the way to go.. better UI

Agreed. Popup on click is the way to go.

It also would be nice if there was some bigger notification when someone starts a chat. Right now, it just blinks orange, and then shows up in the page title. Maybe a beep...?

Is anyone expereince a security alert window pop up during chatting at times ??

/pd, no I havent.

I think the notification when someone chats to you is fairly good. You get to see it on the tab/window title if you are not looking at your inbox at that time in the form:

"John Smith says..."

One issue I have notice is no notification at all for when you have the window popped out. That would be nice.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)

does anyone know what an orange ball with white clock-handles means??? its next to one of the names on my contact list, and it looks like it could be an "away" sign, except i dont have that option on my own list of "set your status" ...

Lexis, in my experience it shows that someone with Google Talk is away, meaning it has auto detected that they haven't done much one their computer recently.