3 ms·

I know this isn't your main point, but for GMail there's always "Basic HTML view": https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui https://mail.google

by Nition 4y ago

I know this isn't your main point, but for GMail there's always "Basic HTML view": https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui

kiwijamo 4y ago
The fact is the normal view used to be very fast even on the hardware of the era. Nowadays normal view has the same functionalities but is much slower even on modern hardware.
- billforsternz 4y ago
  My gmail was great on my commodity 2010 Windows laptop until a couple of months ago, and then it suddenly fell off a cliff. I've tried everything I can think of, but I think Google just messed something up and made it at least an order of magnitude slower quite recently.
- lordgrenville 4y ago
  I used basic view for a while, and didn't miss any of the advanced features. What made me stop was the fact it inserts newlines into messages to keep lines below 70 characters. (I guess this is in line with the RFC, but my recipients didn't like it.)
exikyut 4y ago
To be pedantic, the correct URL is technically https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ https://mail.google.com/mail/h/, which then expands in practice to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ and then gets the jumble of characters near the end added on which appears to be an everything-compliant cache-busting mechanism. When typing the URL manually the "/" after the "h" is required; "mail.google.com/mail/h" will not work.
- seba_dos1 4y ago
  You can also use https://mail.google.com/?ui=html https://mail.google.com/?ui=html
  - erikts 4y ago
    Initially it takes me to a page that asks, "Do you really want to use HTML Gmail?" I need to click "I'd like to use HTML Gmail" button to proceed to HTML Gmail.
- Tijdreiziger 4y ago
  Wow, it's insanely fast. Incredible.
Narishma 4y ago
They're doing their best to kill it. Last time I checked, they stopped honoring the setting that used to allow you to permanently switch views. Now they always use the default slow view unless you use a specific URL.
seba_dos1 4y ago
In my experience, that's the only sane way to use it even on modern hardware.

by Nition 4y ago

I know this isn't your main point, but for GMail there's always "Basic HTML view": https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui

kiwijamo 4y ago

The fact is the normal view used to be very fast even on the hardware of the era. Nowadays normal view has the same functionalities but is much slower even on modern hardware.

billforsternz 4y ago
My gmail was great on my commodity 2010 Windows laptop until a couple of months ago, and then it suddenly fell off a cliff. I've tried everything I can think of, but I think Google just messed something up and made it at least an order of magnitude slower quite recently.
lordgrenville 4y ago
I used basic view for a while, and didn't miss any of the advanced features. What made me stop was the fact it inserts newlines into messages to keep lines below 70 characters. (I guess this is in line with the RFC, but my recipients didn't like it.)

exikyut 4y ago

To be pedantic, the correct URL is technically https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ https://mail.google.com/mail/h/, which then expands in practice to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ and then gets the jumble of characters near the end added on which appears to be an everything-compliant cache-busting mechanism. When typing the URL manually the "/" after the "h" is required; "mail.google.com/mail/h" will not work.

seba_dos1 4y ago
You can also use https://mail.google.com/?ui=html https://mail.google.com/?ui=html
- erikts 4y ago
  Initially it takes me to a page that asks, "Do you really want to use HTML Gmail?" I need to click "I'd like to use HTML Gmail" button to proceed to HTML Gmail.
Tijdreiziger 4y ago
Wow, it's insanely fast. Incredible.

Narishma 4y ago

They're doing their best to kill it. Last time I checked, they stopped honoring the setting that used to allow you to permanently switch views. Now they always use the default slow view unless you use a specific URL.

seba_dos1 4y ago

In my experience, that's the only sane way to use it even on modern hardware.