iGoogle Redesigned

[payup]

Google just updated their iGoogle page, now it has tabs on the side, and ability to maximize gadgets within the home page.

Personally I hate the whole tab on the left side view, as it takes up already small space, and makes it look strange. I only have 6 gadgets that I use normally, and only 1 tab. Plus when you click on the inbox link, it maximizes gmail's inbox right in your home page instead of taking you to your gmail account, which is kind of useless if you organize your email in folders (and no, i'm not a folder freak, i only have a few folders setup)

Rounded corners sure look nice, but the rest is very questionable, or at least they need to provide an option to disable the new features.

 

[sf6864]

Very poor design

And no option to have no emails previewed while seeing number of new ones. In general, a much less flexible/legible layout than the previous one. Time to look for another homepage.

 

[theadz01]

After playing around with it today, I like the changes.

The only thing I want back is my tabs on the top of the page rather than on the left.

 

[edesignuk]

Was wondering why I couldn't see the change...

They've done it to .com/ig but not .co.uk/ig.

 

[payup]

I suppose the rest is not too bad as long as we would be able to move tabs back to the top.

@edesignuk yea, you are lucky i might have to change local settings to UK because of google's silliness.

Oh, if anyone is interested in hiding tabs all together, download "Stylish" extension for firefox, and create a new style for http://www.google.com containing this:

#col1{
display:none;
}

That will make it look normal-ish again.

The only problem with that is if you end up clicking anything in the widgets and they open up in the full view, you won't have a "home" button to go back to normal view, then you have to switch to classic view and back to igoogle.

 

[FrankieTDouglas]

I don't mind it. I just with the Oddly Enough section wasn't the blog now.

 

[jakk2809]

Honestly I don' really use iGoogle. I have enough widgets and RSS feeds that keep me up to date with everything. I use the default google homepage because it loads the fastest.