Touching gmail icon opens new page EVERY time! GRRRR

Question

I noticed this change about 3 or 4 weeks ago. when opening gmail from the gmail icon on the phone it would always locate the existing open page under safari and simply refresh that page.
Now, it likes to open a brand new page each time I want to check gmail email. This results in numerous pages of the gmail inbox open all the time and sometimes hitting the limit (dont recall what that limit is)
How can I get it back to the original behavior of refreshing the existing gmail email page that I always have open??
This may have changed with the recent interface change of the mobile gmail page which occurred a week or so ago. I have to say the page looks better, but takes three times as long to load. One, it loads a new page, two it continues to refresh the inbox view after the overall progress meter for the entire page completes. (two refresh icons)
I used to be able to check gmail from iphone in a matter of seconds. Now I must wait at least 45 seconds to a minute on a 3g connection.
Last, how frickin' hard would it be to have the gmail icon display a red number in the top right hand corner of the gmail square icon, notifying me that there is a new email? I always check gmail to see if I have incoming emails--if I could simply look at the icon as I do the regular mail icon that would save a HELLo of a lot of time. Many blackberry phones show the number of unread email in the icon itself. I recognize its an entirely different phone/interface, but, the same concept should be available on such a great phone if its available on a crapped out phone like a blackberry.
Thanks for listening! Hopefully someone else has noticed this.
Message was edited by: jlcampbelliv

Answer 1

jlcampbelliv wrote:
Last, how frickin' hard would it be to have the gmail icon display a red number in the top right hand corner of the gmail square icon, notifying me that there is a new email? I always check gmail to see if I have incoming emails--if I could simply look at the icon as I do the regular mail icon that would save a HELLo of a lot of time. Many blackberry phones show the number of unread email in the icon itself. I recognize its an entirely different phone/interface, but, the same concept should be available on such a great phone if its available on a crapped out phone like a blackberry.
Thanks for listening! Hopefully someone else has noticed this.
Message was edited by: jlcampbelliv
As for number of emails (badge), this is well documented that no app can run in the background (yet) thus no app can check mail to see if you have mail to update any number. Only some of the prebuilt apps can.
Just curious, why don't you just setup gMail in the email app then you can just use it for checking email and be notified of new emails.