Gmail got a new look offers smarter navigation, Elastic Density, HD themes, smart search, streamlined conversations you can switch to Gmail New Look by clicking on link provided at the bottom, Gmail team found that not much of users using customization of Web Clips hence they removed this feature in new look.
Gmail web clips displays feeds of news headlines, blog posts and ads at the top of your inbox. Till now Gmail allows to customize which feeds to shown on top of inbox by allowing users to add feed URLs of some favorite blogs or can browse for clips in topics and add some, Gmail allows to remove those added web clips as well.
If you access Web Clips tab in Gmail settings you’ll be greeted with “ Due to low usage we’ve removed customization of web clips in Gmail. Your current setting will be maintained and you can still see your feeds below. To follow updates to your favorite sites, try Google Reader”. (check the screenshot above).
You can revert to Old Gmail temporarily by clicking the option provided on Settings button, but all will soon be upgraded to new look.
So far the buzz suggests all users are welcoming the changes and new look of Gmail. Are you unhappy with removal of Web Clips customization in Gmail? please let us know through your comments.
Well, i miss the web clips. A lot.
Dunno how to configure google reader to display my web clips.
Gmail web clips was the main source for me to follow news on the Internet. Removal of customization and scrolling ability is a real pain. :(
I dont think the new look is gonna get that of a fan following and above all gmail is starting show many ads with the new look…
Well, how about they remove label customization or filter customization or some other obscure feature just becose it get’s used rarely at best, and then by fewer than 10% of peaple I know? Also if you would to remove option to delete account just because everyone can use it just once, would you be improving user experience or just showing how much of self-centered bastard you really are?
I suggest a rule of thumb: If your feature might be confused with a bug, don’t add it!
Hugely bummed. It was an essential component of Gmail for me…
Agree with Suneet.
Why retain web clips, but remove the ability to customise them? To squeeze the most out of it as a channel to advertise only for what Google is being paid to promote. It’s a shame to see.
I’m glad that I can opt out of web clips showing at all, at least. Customisation was the only reason I would keep them displayed, even if they were interspersed with ads.
The loss of the ability to scroll through webclips is killing me. Webclips only update when you delete an email or move from one email to another. It’s during this pause between emails that I look at the webclips – and just as I notice something interesting it updates and is gone!
In the old version I could scroll back one clip to see the item I missed (or skip forwards/backwards through the list to see if there’s anything interesting happening). Now once I miss a clip it’s gone forever (or at least until it scrolls around to the top of the pile again which may never happen).
web clips are a great loss, indeed;
you could follow breaking news or get notice of an interesting article while at work without the need to leave gmail; in other words, you could still get a customised glimpse of what was going on in the world no matter how busy your day was and that sure was felt like a breeze of fresh air (in spite of the occassional ads);
tell me, google, why did you kill web clips?
I REALLY MISS WEBCLIPS!!!! THIS IS BS TO JUST CHANGE CRAP ON PEOPLE WHO DO USE THESE FEATURES… TALK ABOUT TWO STEPS BACK
Gmail SAVED WEB CLIPS LOST
Few days before gmail started rolling out the new look (minus the web clips), I lost all my customized web clips.
When I checked settings – > web clips it showed only 1 feed URL.
I has more than a dozen feed custom URLs set which I always use to scroo through to keep updated with latest happenings (while no new mail is there to check)
I reported the data loss to Gmail forums but no reply or resolution.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=3092a2f2dfa2ac54&hl=en
I greatly dislike the new changes. Web clips were a good, quick way to keep up on latest information whether it’s within your company or within your field. They should at least allow ability to fix the URLs if they’ve changed or no longer function. I also greatly dislike the readability of the new interface. The old one allowed customization of colors to make things more readable. The new theme options are nowhere as readable as the old look with customization. Finally, mouse movements are very buggy for me both using Chrome and IE 8. I’m having a lot of issues with using the mouse and even though there’s a keyboard interface, there are some things Google Mail does that are really designed for mouse usage. It would be nice if that mouse usage worked better in the new interface without setting off commands you didn’t want by accident or ignoring mouse clicks at random.
I not only do not like the new look because it’s harder to read, webclips has become completely idiotic. Easily half the day, i’m bombarded with spam. No, not junk mail. Recipes for spam dishes. What the hell???? It’s lost on me why they’d remove a feature because it’s not used a lot. What about those of us who did use it? Morons.
I still hate not being able to browse web clips back and forth. I used to do that all the time. Now I’ll notice an interesting webclip, think ‘yeah I’ll click on that in a minute whemn I finish this email’, and then – guess what – it’s gone! And no way of browsing back to it! All of this crippling and loss of funtionality, and for what? You’re mad, Google.
I do not like the web clips in my inbox and can’t figure out how to remove them. I find it very annoying to have to delete them constantly.