Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
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Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
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Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#2For me at least, they fixed it by reverting to the backup HTML version:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=44c9d...
In a nutshell, using FF 3.6.12 on Ubuntu 10.04 x64, with all addons disabled, gmail will only load the backup HTML-only version. No ajaxy goodness. Even if I manually select the standard interface, it refuses to use it and references the browser upgrade recommendation page.
Anyone have any idea what the problem could be?
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#3For me at least, they fixed it by reverting to the backup HTML version: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=44c9d... In a nutshell, using FF 3.6.12 on Ubuntu 10.04 x64, with all addons disabled, gmail will only load the backup HTML-only version. No ajaxy goodness. Even if I manually select the standard interface, it refuses to use it and references the browser upgrade recommendation page. Anyone ha…
Go to about:config and search for dom.storage.enabled
Toggle it on/off/on (and back to whatever you have it set to)
Then regular mode will work again (may need to refresh page)
Gmail hosed something, relying on local storage in Firefox?
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#4Ehm, sadly: No.
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#5It is interesting to see GMail advocates saving a few seconds a day by using this and that features of GMail, while itself getting slower and slower over the time. I find myself stupid to wait 10 seconds just to load up GMail to quickly look up something. Why I am wasting these 10 seconds loading up a webapp when 99.9% of the time I am using my own computer?
You say running a desktop email client with GMail IMAP? The fact is I got tired of GMail's way of doing IMAP. I cannot remember how many times I try to make the `delete` key to actually trash an email in Mail.app. It's an even bigger mistake with its Push Email on iPhone. So half-baked IMAP and half-baked Exchange.
Finally, I could not stand it any more and moved over to MobileMe and cannot be happier. I still use the same GMail address and simply have GMail forward everything to my MobileMe account. This way, I get to keep my email address and take advantage of GMail's nice spam filter. I know GMail has IMAP and can do Push email and this and that, and after you configure this and that, it will work; but I am not a fancy person and just want to read, delete and send email, from my three Macs, an very old iPhone and an iPad. My days of messing around with kernel modules are over, and I guess I am old enough to start enjoying the almost-zero-configuration of MobileMe on all my computing devices.
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#6This issue may be fixed, but Gmail's slowness is definitely not fixed. And affects way more than 2% of people on Gmail.
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#7It is interesting to see GMail advocates saving a few seconds a day by using this and that features of GMail, while itself getting slower and slower over the time. I find myself stupid to wait 10 seconds just to load up GMail to quickly look up something. Why I am wasting these 10 seconds loading up a webapp when 99.9% of the time I am using my own computer? You say running a desktop email client with GMail IMAP? The…
Gmail loads within 1-3 seconds for me. Not only that, I VERY, VERY rarely close my browser, not even once a day if I can help it. So my mail is always available for me. Priority Inbox is amazing, as well.
In regards to iPhone: Simply get an Android phone. Flawless Gmail/GoogleApps integration; native support for colored labels, calendar, etc. I wouldn't clal it half-baked IMAP, more of, half-baked clients that don't support Gmail properly. Remember that traditional email uses folders; Gmail uses labels. They are FAR superior in every way. If a client doesn't support it, find a new client.
And I've never used MobileMe, but why add another point of failure to email? It's something that is typically very important to people, even more so probably the people who visit Hacker News.
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#8This issue may be fixed, but Gmail's slowness is definitely not fixed. And affects way more than 2% of people on Gmail.
Do you know how large 2% of Gmail's userbase is? I think the article said 4 million... Even if it became a trend on Twitter, it could still be a small percentage of users. So I think your claim here is just out of frustration.
I have not experienced any speed issues.
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#9It is interesting to see GMail advocates saving a few seconds a day by using this and that features of GMail, while itself getting slower and slower over the time. I find myself stupid to wait 10 seconds just to load up GMail to quickly look up something. Why I am wasting these 10 seconds loading up a webapp when 99.9% of the time I am using my own computer? You say running a desktop email client with GMail IMAP? The…
I cannot remember how many times I try to make the `delete` key to actually trash an email in Mail.app.
Click [Gmail]/Trash. Click the Mailbox menu, go to Use This Mailbox For, choose Trash. You're done.
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#10This issue may be fixed, but Gmail's slowness is definitely not fixed. And affects way more than 2% of people on Gmail.
Like Michael, neither have I ever experienced any speed issues, although I don't sort or filter things. Gmail loads in less than a second, and opening an email appears effectively instantaneous.