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If you’re a Gmail user you may not have noticed that the URL when logged in is no longer http://gmail.google.com/*. Google has dropped the ‘G’ and turned the URL into http://mail.google.com/*. Is the Gmail brand name going to be recognized as ‘Google Mail’ from now on? I know that IP’s across the pond see a ‘Google Mail’ logo when logged in. There aren’t any significant changes other then the fact that users with GreaseMonkey scripts will have to a) edit the scripts manually to reflect the URL change, or b.) check the GreaseMonkey repository for updates. The good news is that corporate firewalls blocking the old URL may not be updated to reflect the change. (So no one tell your IT department, maybe they’ll overlook the change.)