or you could just use the old html version of gmail, and open as many messages as you like in different tabs.
Introducing the new compose in Gmail
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Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#162I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gm... ), and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there. To wit: When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal…
If somebody's from Google is reading it, please fix your blog theme! It's the most unusable theme, period.
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ugh, why would anyone up-vote this comment? Some how this is the top comment, even though it doesn't address the content of the article. This happens all the time on HN and I find it very annoying. It's not just that I don't want to scroll past this comment. These meta-comments may seem harmless, but when this is the top comment, it stifles the entire discussion about the article. Instead of people discussing the mer…
He's getting upvoted because it had to be said... finally.
Yeah! After all, it isn't like this comes up every (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4070192) single (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767025) time (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196833) a official Google blogpost is submitted or even is brought up.
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone have a comprehensive/good solution to how to move all your stuff out of Gmail? I use Thunderbird + IMAP to sync a local copy of my Gmail email every week or two. It does not sync anything except your email, but even that much is pretty nice, for peace of mind.
I don't use email clients, so pardon me if this is elementary, but is there a good way to compress and archive downloaded emails with their attachments? Also, is the formatting (rtf) preserved?
If you're a technical sort, offlineimap is quite a good tool, although I don't think it compresses downloaded emails.
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#165Does anyone else suffer from EXTREMELY slow gmail. This happens for me across all devices, browsers, and even IMAP. 30+ seconds to load messages sometimes and lots of 17, 317 and 503 errors. I've tried every recommendation, and of course hear nothing back from their support or in their forums. Gmail is almost unusable for me now. Any recommendations or contacts would be appreciated. It seems the only way to get help…
This is usually caused by having a lot of devices polling your G-mail account. Go to this link: https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens
and remove any that are old/you aren't using. You'll see a speed up.
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#166Does anyone else suffer from EXTREMELY slow gmail. This happens for me across all devices, browsers, and even IMAP. 30+ seconds to load messages sometimes and lots of 17, 317 and 503 errors. I've tried every recommendation, and of course hear nothing back from their support or in their forums. Gmail is almost unusable for me now. Any recommendations or contacts would be appreciated. It seems the only way to get help…
This is usually caused by having a lot of devices polling your G-mail account. Go to this link: https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens and remove any that are old/you aren't using. You'll see a speed up.
Thanks. More exceedingly obtuse Google UI. There were a couple apps I could remove with access to Gmail, but doubtful that is the issue.
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#167I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gm... ), and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there. To wit: When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal…
Ugh, why would anyone up-vote this comment? Some how this is the top comment, even though it doesn't address the content of the article. This happens all the time on HN and I find it very annoying. It's not just that I don't want to scroll past this comment. These meta-comments may seem harmless, but when this is the top comment, it stifles the entire discussion about the article. Instead of people discussing the mer…
it doesn't address the content of the article
I wholeheartedly disagree. The singing and dancing crap that people surround their text and images with is content. It's just crap content. Think about it the other way: if it's not content, why is it even there? Why does a blog need a loading screen?
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#168I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gm... ), and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there. To wit: When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal…
Ugh, why would anyone up-vote this comment? Some how this is the top comment, even though it doesn't address the content of the article. This happens all the time on HN and I find it very annoying. It's not just that I don't want to scroll past this comment. These meta-comments may seem harmless, but when this is the top comment, it stifles the entire discussion about the article. Instead of people discussing the mer…
It would be helpful to have some way to collapse a comment thread that we are not interested in.
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#169It's amazing, when you ask "why would you need a whole page for composing an email?" there is no good answer. Someone dozens of years ago probably made that decision and it's just stuck.
Re: Introducing the new compose in Gmail
#170Is this really a step forward? It feels a little bit like a step backwards -- more like classic email clients and less like Gmail.
What feels the most like classic email clients is the way they abstract recipients by placing the contact's name into a box and no longer display the email address next to it. The pretty box is fine, but I hated seeing contacts on an email in something like Outlook and not being able to quickly confirm which address was used for that contact, so perhaps it'd be better if they had these recipients in a scrollable list…
It feels like they are trying to Trojan horse Google+ into Gmail. This change is a step backwards in usability.
In an age where people have multiple email addresses, do we really want the email addresses to be hidden? Come on.