They also added your account name to the loading screen
http://cheesemonger32.googlepages.com/Gmail-loading-bar.png

I just noticed this as well. I wonder if they made any other changes as well or if this was the only thing. It seems like a rather random side item to change on its own.

i like it.

does gmail seem faster by the way?

Maybe it's linked to the news saying that they reduced the number of request during the connexion process...

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/need-for-speed-path-to-faster-loading.html

dpneal, i feel it does.

Only for Gmail 2.0 though..

Oh well... ~ sigh ~

Its there for google apps too.

wow i'm just seeing that bar now, before i was only noticing the option to switch to HTML view at the bottom right but maybe i just wasn't paying attention

Just noticed this bar. It's super tacky.

Gmail feels faster, I see the loading screen for at most a second compared to about three seconds previously.

DPic
I don't remember seeing the links at the bottom but I can now :-/
http://cheesemonger32.googlepages.com/Gmail-loading.png

GMail also feels much haster here? (Firefox 3.0)

No question mark, sorry.
And also seeing that blue bar thing, along with a link to switch to the html version in case of problem

Hmm, I've just upgraded from Fx 3.0 Beta 5 to RC1, and Gmail is now slower than it was before I upgraded, although apparently still faster than Fx2 according to Mozilla.

Just saw this. The OP must have either video-screen capture or lightning reflexes – that thing loads quickly.

The last week or so the Gmail wasn't loading AT ALL in Firefox at 2.0.0.15 at work, but now that I see the blue bar it loads and loads FAST. Very fast.

Well it took a few attempts to get one that was halfway (eg. not empty, not full)

In WinXP SP3 (Firefox 3RC1) I see the loading screen for half a second. In Ubuntu I still have Firefox 3b5 in which it loads slower.

It feels MUCH faster under my Firefox 3 RC1/ Mac OS 10.5, than it felt with the previous loading screen.

It's a pretty add. And I notice it works better with the latest versions of firefox too.

I just noticed it!

The bar to me seems annoying and the load times seem a bit longer now... not much but 1 or 2 secs add up when you log in 10 times a day!

bar is a waste of time and makes it look noob and very microsoft shite

My blue bar just got stuck in an infinite loop, slowly filling up and then going back down to around 30% continuously. I had to kills my Firefox.exe process and relaunch the browser to make it work. Weird.

Yea that's happening to me too, it's really annoying. In fact, that's why I came to this page, to see if there was any way to fix that. Anybody know of a way?

increases the load time for me.