Gmail got some nice UI improvements, actually it got little more intelligent. These are the stuff I managed to see as new.

• Chat can now be Turned On/Off (It use to reload page completely in previous version)
• Your view-page is updated in the URL (You can now bookmark a particular mail or view)
• Class name of div containing ads is changed and ID of the div is dynamic (Now, good old greasemonkey script to hide ads doesn’t work) I didn’t try to modify my old script as there is still an option for Older version on the top. I could be wrong completely as I didn’t give much time analyzing it
• New skin detects Firebug and asks you to disable it/or atleast some features of it
• It’s kinda faster than the older version
• A brand new Contact Manager

Despite above features, I’m going to stick to my old version of Gmail as long as they give me an option to use it. Guess, what makes it so special ? It makes me to check for new mails again and again ;)

Click image on left to see the screenshot of the version I use. For the new version, login to your Gmail.

I’ve take some scripts from userscripts.org and edited them for this particular look. Calibri font looks very smooth. Everything’s so perfect for (my) eyes. If you wanna try that, let me know. I will mail those scripts.

Update: As per /. Google is calling it Gmail 2.0 and you can see the screenshots here