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One of the biggest complaints about Gmail I've heard from email power users - you know, the type of people who have a million things going on at once rather than linearly working through their inbox - is the inability to compose an email while still accessing the rest of their inbox.

Well, that problem has been solved, at Gina Trapini points out on Lifehacker. Holding down the shift key while clicking Compose Mail will launch a new window for your new message.

If you have pop-up blockers enabled, you may need to authorize mail.google.com in order to get this to work.

[Update: fixed typo.]

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1. Posted by: Bill McGuire on May 8, 2007 9:44 AM:

Thanks for the tip!
As always you guys are awesome.

2. Posted by: Benjamin Deneen on May 8, 2007 9:49 AM:

Nice tip. TE... you complete me.

3. Posted by: Jayce Ooi on May 8, 2007 9:26 PM:

Thanks for the tips. It helps me a lot. :)

4. Posted by: w on May 8, 2007 10:03 PM:

> Holding down the shirt key

Do you hold your shirt down, or just tuck it in? I prefer to tuck mine in.

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