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Redesigned Gmail is ludicrously slow and glitchy in so many ways that old-Gmail was not. According to about:performance, not only is it consistently the most de
by dralley 7y ago
Redesigned Gmail is ludicrously slow and glitchy in so many ways that old-Gmail was not. According to about:performance, not only is it consistently the most demanding tab in terms of CPU (usually by a wide margin), but it also uses nearly double the memory of Youtube, which is itself also much more bloated than it used to be.
Google is supposed to hire the best and brightest engineers around, yet apparently they require 60-120 megabytes of RAM just to show a couple of lines of text on the screen. It's absolutely pathetic.
- amiga-workbench 7y agoThat's just what the modern web is like now, chickenshit minimalism, oodles of whitespace, vapid hero banners, plenty of grey Helvetica ultralight on white and a pile of bloat.
- mrob 7y agoPlain HTML version is still available and very fast.
- exikyut 7y agoAnd wraps sent emails at 72 characters, which looks incredibly unprofessional. And doesn't autosave drafts.
- ashtonkem 7y agoI stopped using the gmail interface years ago; it’s now only an imap/smtp server pair for me. The constant changes and moving features just made it markedly inferior to even Mail.app in the long run.