Is this new?

http://andrewhitchcock.org/images/gmailwithoutchat.png

I almost never use Gmail's chat, since I'm usually logged in via iChat.

Andrew

Nope, that feature has been there since chat in Gmail was introduced.

I've recently being trying to work out how much quicker (if at all) gmail is without chat enabled.

yes its there since Gmail launched chat.. and i therefore dont use this because my gtalk and gmail chat interferes....

Oh, interesting. I just noticed it today and set it to not use chat. Oh well :)

I can't access to http://mail.google.com here, in France. Have you the same problem?
(it's long to load and ... " We're sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We're currently working to fix the problem"..)

Getting it fine in the UK

here too :)

im sure the problem has been fixed.. isnt it Tom?