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Use the "basic HTML" version and make it your default view. On mobile it's even worth putting up with its more desktopy appearance to avoid the bloated crap tha

by asark 7y ago

Use the "basic HTML" version and make it your default view. On mobile it's even worth putting up with its more desktopy appearance to avoid the bloated crap that is modern Gmail. The site takes so f*$%ing long to load you should have no problem clicking the "Slow? Try the Basic HTML version" link, maybe with 2-3 tries to figure out where it is (it's a small link). Then you should see an option to set it as your default. Bonus: you can actually leave it open in a tab without eating three figure MB of memory and sometimes slowing down your machine doing god-knows-what in the background. Only downside is no notifications for new mail, but 1) that assumes you consider that a downside, and 2) that's what actual, native email clients are for.

chipperyman573 7y ago
Wrt your downside, I haven't tried this myself but I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to write an extension to check for new emails every x minutes - if there's a button to refresh your mailbox you can just put an a call to the button's click event[0] inside a setTimeout, and if there's no button just refresh the page (you will probably need logic to make sure you aren't actively interacting with it). But most likely a quick 30 minute project if you've made an extension before (and only an hour or so if not). [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/click https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...
Nition 7y ago
Here's a direct link to go to the basic HTML version: http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ http://mail.google.com/mail/h/
- chii 7y ago
  And the mobile-web version is even better imho : https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/ https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/
the_pwner224 7y ago
Gmail takes a good five seconds to load the basic UI on my i7 laptop (and then some more time to load messages), but for some reason the Basic HTML link in the corner doesn't work. I've logged in a few times this week and clicked the link each time, and the browser confirms the click with the focus rectangle appearing, but it still loads the slow version of Gmail. This is in Firefox as well as Falkon (WebKit-based). My company uses Outlook/Exchange and it also has a webapp; the website is pretty feature-rich and has a UI very similar to native Outlook, but it is blazing fast. The folks at Google are doing something very wrong to make it this slow.

by asark 7y ago

chipperyman573 7y ago

Wrt your downside, I haven't tried this myself but I can't imagine it'd be too difficult to write an extension to check for new emails every x minutes - if there's a button to refresh your mailbox you can just put an a call to the button's click event[0] inside a setTimeout, and if there's no button just refresh the page (you will probably need logic to make sure you aren't actively interacting with it). But most likely a quick 30 minute project if you've made an extension before (and only an hour or so if not). [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/click https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement...

Nition 7y ago

Here's a direct link to go to the basic HTML version: http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ http://mail.google.com/mail/h/

chii 7y ago
And the mobile-web version is even better imho : https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/ https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/mp/

the_pwner224 7y ago

Gmail takes a good five seconds to load the basic UI on my i7 laptop (and then some more time to load messages), but for some reason the Basic HTML link in the corner doesn't work. I've logged in a few times this week and clicked the link each time, and the browser confirms the click with the focus rectangle appearing, but it still loads the slow version of Gmail. This is in Firefox as well as Falkon (WebKit-based). My company uses Outlook/Exchange and it also has a webapp; the website is pretty feature-rich and has a UI very similar to native Outlook, but it is blazing fast. The folks at Google are doing something very wrong to make it this slow.