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Seems that in 4.4 a change was made in the way that you add a contact to groups while in the contact edit screen.

Before it was a big list that you checked or unchecked a box beside the group to add or remove them from the group.

This has now been changed to a drop down list which makes it much more time consuming to add a contact to multiple groups (having to go back in and scroll through all the groups over and over.)   

I am guessing that this change was made in an effort to tidy up this section of the contact edit screens.  However the usability has taken a step backward.

Just my two cents.

I am using 4.4 ( coming from 4.3)

4.3 and previous listed all the groups with checkboxes beside them.  it was really easy to go through and add people to multiple groups. (even though it wasn't necessarily a pretty interface, it was very efficient for users)

Now in 4.4 this has been replaced with a drop down select box... so you have to go into it and scroll through all the groups for every group you want to add the contact to.

I just checked out 4.5.... this is a bit more slick, but still isn't as efficient as the full list with checkboxes...   

I agree...  It would be nice to have a multi select option as well.