The customizable home page / personal portal / webtop Netvibes is today launching the previously announced new version of their service, codenamed Coriander. The features will be introduced gradually, but at the time of this writing Netvibes is down and when it goes up again it will have several new features online.

Coriander brings a new look for Netvibes and resizable columns, both non-essential but nice enough features. Also, you can now browse through a feed even after you exceed the display limit - for example, if you have a box set up to show the latest 5 items in the feed, you can now click next to get to the next 5 feeds and so on. Lastly, as announced at FOWA conference in London, with Coriander Netvibes should start supporting OpenID - we’ll see if it happens right away or if it’s one of the features that will be introduced later.

Judging by the announced features the changes in Coriander won’t be as big to warrant a full-featured review, but as soon as it goes up I’ll post any interesting new features if I find them.

*Update: Netvibes is now up, but at times it’s incredibly sluggish, and the problem seems to be linked with the new ‘Coriander’ visual theme (which, by the way, features rounded corners for boxes). I don’t recommend switching to it until this problem is resolved.