There are 2 Problems here: a) Opening gmail to compose an email b) Opening gmail to look up an email In either case I don't want to be seeing any new email.

There are 2 Problems here: a) Opening gmail to compose an email b) Opening gmail to look up an email In either case I don't want to be seeing any new email. This solution works somewhat well for problem a), but what I'd love to see is this: A gmail labs feature that puts gmail in a "fake" offline mode by default and gives me a "Fetch mail" button as if it was a desktop app. New mail would only be displayed after pressing this button. Any ideas on how I could achieve this?