Google has recently added a new security feature to Gmail which lets users track their recent sessions and also allows them to sign out remotely.
Technically speaking, this new layer of information will let Gmail users track all recent activity on their Gmail account which indeed is an excellent new security measure.
A new line in footer now tells you about your last account activity and also notifies if your account is open simultaneously on any other location.
Clicking on details will launch a popup which gives you statistics about your recent account activity in detail. It tells you about the access type (browser, device etc), IP address and Date/Time.
Pressing the "Sign out all other sessions" button will remotely sign out your Gmail account from all other machines except the current one.
Previously, Gmail has been the subject of a lot criticism in terms of security because of the Incoming Mail Filter Trojan (Click here to check Gmail Incoming Mail Filters) but now with this new feature it will overthrow every other mail service in terms of good security.
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nice google added new feature to gmail, more useful though
Very nice feature… but it doesn’t work with IE6 (and maybe with other browsers).
You can use the direct url of the page!
Follow these steps:
1) change your browser’s user agent string (eg use “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)”), close the browser and reopen it in order the change to take effect. From now your browser will be identified as IE7
2) Log in to Gmail with your account, et voilà, “Last account activity” is available on the bottom of the page. You click it and the popup opens. Save the url of this page, which will work on all browsers, then undo the changes you made to the user agent string of IE6 and restart the browser.
When you are logged onto Gmail and you need the “Last account activity” page, simply use the url you previously saved.