In what was the shortest honeymoon on record (15 minutes), Yahoo Mail and I divorced and I went back to Gmail double-quick and we had some great make-up email-making.

So here's what I think should be changed in Gmail for my relationship with the email service to blossom :

1. Faster loading times. Currently, Gmail loads way too slow. It needs to speed up a bit, like a German cyclist on the Tour de France team on steroids.

2. The ability to open your contacts book without leaving your inbox. The ideal scenario would be a pop-up window.

3. When the contacts window is open, I want to be able to click a box next to the contact(s) I want to send an email to and for those email addresses to be inserted into the email window automatically. At the moment, I am having to remember email addresses from memory and my memory is as good as Alberto Gonzales in front of Congress.

4. Links next to "spam" and "trash" to empty those folders without entering them first.

5. The only thing I miss about Outlook and Yahoo Mail is having a preview pane to read the email without opening it first. Maybe Google could offer this option? I like the idea of using the arrow keys to go up and down my inbox with the email opening in a preview pane.

6. The ability to delete attachments but still keep the email that came with it. At the moment, you either have to keep everything or delete everything. You can't pick and choose.

7. Some kind of integration with Google Reader and Google Calendar. You can already do this with Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts but I would prefer Google officially integrating these options into Gmail.

8. Coming back to the contacts book (as it is one of my most important areas of Gmail), the ability to enter instant messaging ID's which can be clicked on to open that program. Plus the ability to enter contacts websites and to be able to click on them and for them to then open in a browser.

9. More free space. Yahoo is offering unlimited email space. Why can't Google? At the very least, 5GB isn't too much to ask!

10. This is only a small thing but if Google wants to integrate Google Talk into Gmail then why not integrate it better? At the moment, you get this tiny little chat box in the bottom right hand corner of the screen and I absolutely hate typing in this tiny box. Why not make the box bigger, give us emoticons and rich text features? Make the chat box a pleasure to use!

Well, that's my two cents.....