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by znpy 1952 days ago
jesus christ gmail is absolutely unusable both on the desktop and on mobile.

the only way to make it usable again is to switch to the plain html mode, that uses no javascript, loads very fast, and reminds me a lot of the first gmail ui, back from ~15 years go.
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nsriv 1952 days ago
I've really enjoyed using the Simplify Gmail extension when I use Gmail on desktop. Just launched a new v2 that's very nice.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simplify-gmail/pbm...

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znpy 1952 days ago
I'm having none of that crap.

Injecting non-google code inside my gmail window sounds like a very dumb idea to me, honestly.

I already trust google very little and keep my gmail inbox because I'm basically being coerced/forced to (no gmail = no apps on android)... The last thing I want is adding another entity to the picture.

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ComputerGuru 1952 days ago
Imagine if they just used an SSE or mixed-replace to update the plain html version in real-time when messages are received without JS. But we can’t have that (Google even unilaterally disabled mixed-replace in blink/Chrome/Chromium (except for continuing to support MJPEG) many, many years ago so no one else can do that either).
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znpy 1952 days ago
Imagine if they had just fu--ing kept gmail lean and slick as it was in the first days.
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edoceo 1952 days ago
What's a mixed-replace update?
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