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Is Outlook really only at 4.42%? Hard to believe with how ubiquitous Office 365 is.

zdragnar 4y ago
The last two places I worked at that had office 365, everyone just used the web interface. It was pretty miserable but beat having a separate application just for email.
- Noumenon72 4y ago
  A separate application is nicer because you can switch to it with alt-tab or number keys instead of finding it among all your other tabs.
  - ajb 4y ago
    That's solved by keeping it in its own window.
    - oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
      That works on Windows where alt+tab cycles between ... er, windows, but not on macOS, where CMD+tab cycles between apps. As another commenter said, the 'shortcut' feature (e.g. for PWAs) is a workaround.
      - sbuk 4y ago
        CMD-` has always cycled through open documents, going back to the original Mac OS.
        oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
        Sure, but alternating between the two is less convenient. You can also cycle between tabs using a keyboard shortcut.
      - lucumo 4y ago
        This constantly pissed me off, especially since MacOS always seemed to pick the wrong window to jump to. There's an open source project to fix it though: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ Together with an app to fix the scroll wheel and a calendar widget, working with MacOS becomes almost bearable.
      - nequo 4y ago
        You can also type "%outlook" in the address bar in Firefox and jump directly to the tabs that contain "outlook" in their names.
  - heckerhut 4y ago
    PWA is your friend
  - kzrdude 4y ago
    You can pin the tab in Firefox. And there's a shortcut for switching to the first tab.
    - IshKebab 4y ago
      Yeah but Firefox drops pinned tabs from memory all the time if you're low on RAM. It's definitely not as reliable as a separate app.
      - kzrdude 4y ago
        I've used auto tab discard for a long time and exempted the outlook tabs. I think Firefox was taking that feature to main, but not sure how they interact. I don't go low on ram often enough to notice anything, or the exemption still works.

The last two places I worked at that had office 365, everyone just used the web interface. It was pretty miserable but beat having a separate application just for email.

Noumenon72 4y ago
A separate application is nicer because you can switch to it with alt-tab or number keys instead of finding it among all your other tabs.
- ajb 4y ago
  That's solved by keeping it in its own window.
  - oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
    That works on Windows where alt+tab cycles between ... er, windows, but not on macOS, where CMD+tab cycles between apps. As another commenter said, the 'shortcut' feature (e.g. for PWAs) is a workaround.
    - sbuk 4y ago
      CMD-` has always cycled through open documents, going back to the original Mac OS.
      - oneeyedpigeon 4y ago
        Sure, but alternating between the two is less convenient. You can also cycle between tabs using a keyboard shortcut.
    - lucumo 4y ago
      This constantly pissed me off, especially since MacOS always seemed to pick the wrong window to jump to. There's an open source project to fix it though: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ Together with an app to fix the scroll wheel and a calendar widget, working with MacOS becomes almost bearable.
    - nequo 4y ago
      You can also type "%outlook" in the address bar in Firefox and jump directly to the tabs that contain "outlook" in their names.
- heckerhut 4y ago
  PWA is your friend
- kzrdude 4y ago
  You can pin the tab in Firefox. And there's a shortcut for switching to the first tab.
  - IshKebab 4y ago
    Yeah but Firefox drops pinned tabs from memory all the time if you're low on RAM. It's definitely not as reliable as a separate app.
    - kzrdude 4y ago
      I've used auto tab discard for a long time and exempted the outlook tabs. I think Firefox was taking that feature to main, but not sure how they interact. I don't go low on ram often enough to notice anything, or the exemption still works.