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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

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Post by pmjordan »

michaelhart wrote: post #7
eddieplan9 wrote: post #5

It 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…

Not only that, I VERY, VERY rarely close my browser.

I actually keep Chrome running all the time just for GMail. My main web browser is Opera. Chrome's drag & drop support for attachments also helps. I used to use Firefox with Gears specifically for GMail, but that doesn't seem to work very well anymore (and Google have abandoned it with no replacement as yet).

Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed

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Post by Groxx »

michaelhart wrote: post #7
eddieplan9 wrote: post #5

It 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…

Priority seems to be messing up messages over IMAP. One inbox gets the original message in formatted goodness, and one gets the message's raw content as text (including meta-content, like attachments, separators, etc). Changes which one it comes into, too; I think it's whichever was pulled first.

Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed

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Post by michaelhart »

pmjordan wrote: post #21
michaelhart wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Not only that, I VERY, VERY rarely close my browser. I actually keep Chrome running all the time just for GMail. My main web browser is Opera. Chrome's drag & drop support for attachments also helps. I used to use Firefox with Gears specifically for GMail, but that doesn't seem to work very well anymore (and Google have abandoned it with no replacement as yet).

Gmail supports drag and drop attachments in all browsers with the use of Flash.

Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed

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Post by pmjordan »

michaelhart wrote: post #23
pmjordan wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only that, I VERY, VERY rarely close my browser. I actually keep Chrome running all the time just for GMail. My main web browser is Opera. Chrome's drag & drop support for attachments also helps. I used to use Firefox with Gears specifically for GMail, but that doesn't seem to work very well anymore (and Google have abandoned it with no replacement as yet).

Gmail supports drag and drop attachments in all browsers with the use of Flash.

Interesting, thanks. I've never noticed as I have Flash disabled by default. :)

Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed

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Post by jessriedel »

_delirium wrote: post #20
jessriedel wrote: post #12

I think "reach out to" as a weird, touchy-feely synonym for "contact" is my least favorite business buzzword. I can't take anyone who says it seriously. I immediately assume they are full of shit.

I hadn't realized until really recently that it had accumulated this buzzwordy usage, so I used to assume the person writing just wasn't very good at English and had misunderstood the connotations of the phrase. Unless I've been completely wrong about its meaning for years, "reach out to" implies more of a process, rather than simply asking a question. If you say you plan to "reach out to the city's troubled youth",…

>If you say you plan to "reach out to the city's troubled youth", people would assume you meant something more than just asking some troubled youth a few questions.

I agree. That's an example of its original usage which was meaningful, though vague.

Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed

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Post by jessriedel »

eli wrote: post #13
jessriedel wrote: post #12

I think "reach out to" as a weird, touchy-feely synonym for "contact" is my least favorite business buzzword. I can't take anyone who says it seriously. I immediately assume they are full of shit.

It's still better than "ping" as a synonym for "call"

Eh. "Ping" sounds tongue-in-cheek to me. Nerd humor. It doesn't bother me as much.
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