June 10, 2010

Gmail Gets a New and Improved Chat Window

Chatting in Gmail is simple enough: Click on a contact and a chat window will open in the lower right corner of the screen. Finding video, group and voice chat was previously a bit harder to find, but now Google has solved that, adding one-click buttons for these three functions right into the Gmail chat window.

Even if you don’t have the plugins required for video chat, you’ll see an icon that will install the required plugin, after which you can carry on with the chat.

Google  says it expects the number of people using the video, group and voice chat features to rise dramatically after this improvement.

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