So I’ve been using So I’ve been using as my exclusive email account for a week or so now.
Here are my thoughts:
1) It misbehaves a little in Firefox. Every now and again, I get a message I just can’t open in FF, but if I load up IE, I can view the conversation. This seems to happen mostly on conversations with a bunch of messages, but not always. Truthfully, I haven’t figured out the rhyme or reason to it.
2) I keep forgetting that Gmail displays ads based upon the content of the message you are reading – and by that, I mean I just don’t notice them. I keep trying to remind myself to look for them, just because I’m curious as to what ads target my email messages. But I don’t notice them at all. This means a) they are non-intrusive, and b) they don’t work very well at all.
3) Contact management still isn’t super great. But it’s accomplished what I want – people I need to email are in my address book, and actually, the only time I open the contacts list is when I am sending a message to lots of people. Normally the auto-complete feature works well.
4) Keyboard shortcuts are teh awesome and I need to remember to use them more often.