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Re: Google Inbox

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Post by kulkarnic »

kulkarnic wrote: post #327
Lewisham wrote: post #153

I've been using Inbox at El Goog for a while now, and I am happy to answer questions (in between dealing with a newborn...) FWIW, I really like it, and use it exclusively for my work and personal accounts. Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client. Here are the workflows I have: Work: I filter all mailing lists into different clusters that I have appear at 7AM every morning. I then…

I wrote a review of the Inbox on facebook (that was my deal with the person that invited me). Cross-posting here if it interests you. My review of Google's new Inbox, based on two hours of use (thanks [redacted] for the invite). First the good parts: 1. I really like bundles. The idea that I can "Sweep" all the promotional emails I get in one click fills me with glee (and marketers with anxiety, I imagine). It's also…

I can't edit this original post, but it seems I can't invite people yet; will update when I do.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by cpeterso »

cromwellian wrote: post #282
pcwalton wrote: post #261

Chrome only, it seems. Disappointing. https://twitter.com/brianleroux/status/524987137892954112

It doesn't use any Chrome specific features and it will work on FF, but it needs to be optimized to get buttery smooth 60fps animations. As you know, the logic for when the various browsers do layout, create layers, upload them to the GPU, etc is different, and that causes divergence rendering performance. It was hard enough to do this on Chrome, it just takes time. We also ran into a recent difference in the way spa…

> It doesn't use any Chrome specific features and it will work on FF

Does "will work on FF" mean "FF will eventually be supported"? Because today we see: "Inbox only works in Google Chrome. More browsers coming soon. Download Google Chrome."

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by tschneidereit »

cromwellian wrote: post #425
bzbarsky wrote: post #422

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, V8 implements slice() fast at the expense of correctness. A basic edge-case testcase like https://bug1087963.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=85... fails. That said, it's clearly possible to do this fast _and_ correctly (e.g. IE manages this). But as a note, some V8 folks would like to remove the buggy-but-fast thing completely. See https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3612#c2

Thanks Mozilla for the quick reaction. We were not really blocked on this as a for-in/Object.getOwnPropertyNames loop is an easy workaround, it's more that finding the cause of an unexplained slow down took a bit of time (the usage comes from another engineer's rpc-serialization library) Is there a point of contact for rendering/paint performance issues? We've had problems in Chrome where we had to work around excess…

(SpiderMonkey engineer here)

What VerGreeneyes says is true for our JS engine, too: you can always file bugs in our bugzilla (in the "Core/ JavaScript Engine" component). We react to such bugs very promptly (as you can see in bug 1087963[0] which was fixed six hours after being filed) and, in many cases, can uplift patches from Nightly to Aurora and maybe Beta, so they'll reach release builds more quickly.

If for some reason you're not comfortable with filing a publicly visible bug, you can also abuse the flag for filing security-sensitive bugs. That way, we may be better able to help with issues affecting unannounced products.

For asking questions or getting our attention even more quickly, you can either join us in the #jsapi channel on irc.mozilla.org, send mail to dev.tech.js-engine[1], or send mail to one of the SpiderMonkey engineers directly. A list of these engineers is available at [2], or you can just email me at [my nick]@mozilla.com.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087963 [1] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Modules/Core#JavaSc...

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by krammer »

nirvdrum wrote: post #360
krammer wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To do the trick, you have to add the account as "not an alias" (you will have to add the gmail smpt and so) and later, select the reply "Reply from the same address to which the message was sent".

I did that. It was remembering to switch the account when composing new messages. I ended up sending work emails from my personal account on a few occasions.

I meant going to Accounts and choosing the "Reply from... radio". That way it will always choose the "destination email" as reply.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by findjashua »

Lewisham wrote: post #153

I've been using Inbox at El Goog for a while now, and I am happy to answer questions (in between dealing with a newborn...) FWIW, I really like it, and use it exclusively for my work and personal accounts. Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client. Here are the workflows I have: Work: I filter all mailing lists into different clusters that I have appear at 7AM every morning. I then…

"only works in Chrome". Sorry, not interested.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by robin_reala »

dochtman wrote: post #408
robin_reala wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you got the Bugzilla id for this issue? I’d be interested to track it.

It was filed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1087963 There's also this earlier bug that seems related: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045391

That was quick: a patch was checked in earlier!

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by tspike »

stfu wrote: post #288
inoop wrote: post #17

I'm not sure what this 'inbox' does, but from judging from the video it's about a bunch of twenty-something hipsters from California high-fiving each other.

Same here. It seems that GMail wants now to "friendfeed" my mailbox. I don't know what that whole "overwhelmed by email" issue is all about. If you are getting 100+ emails a day and believe these are all relevant for you, you either work as some sort of a customers service rep or there is something wrong with your life/priorities.

This is exactly what they want to do. Ads embedded in streams/feeds have proven to be the most profitable monetization strategy on mobile, and Google's missing the party on that one. It's an attempt to take one of their powerful, existing products and turn it into a mobile feed.

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by ryanobjc »

taeric wrote: post #198
IvyMike wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can't remember any feature that pulled me to gmail [...] Their anti-spam was stunningly better than all the existing web-based providers.

I don't remember this being the case. I remember it being better than other free options. But not compared to paid ones.

from 2004-2010 or so it was definitively the case.

Yes, everyone else has caught up. Yay less spam!

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by bkrishnan »

kulkarnic wrote: post #327
Lewisham wrote: post #153

I've been using Inbox at El Goog for a while now, and I am happy to answer questions (in between dealing with a newborn...) FWIW, I really like it, and use it exclusively for my work and personal accounts. Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client. Here are the workflows I have: Work: I filter all mailing lists into different clusters that I have appear at 7AM every morning. I then…

I wrote a review of the Inbox on facebook (that was my deal with the person that invited me). Cross-posting here if it interests you. My review of Google's new Inbox, based on two hours of use (thanks [redacted] for the invite). First the good parts: 1. I really like bundles. The idea that I can "Sweep" all the promotional emails I get in one click fills me with glee (and marketers with anxiety, I imagine). It's also…

If you still have an invite, I would appreciate it. bkrishnan at gmail dot com

Re: Google Inbox

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Post by hrktb »

epalm wrote: post #140
GuiA wrote: post #19

Congrats to Google on shipping! Side question: am I the only person fully satisfied by my email workflow? I practice inbox 0- if an email is in my inbox, it means something needs to be done about it (whether it's replying, filing a bug report, writing a patch, etc). Once it's done, it gets archived. I star the stuff that I'll need to refer to later, like tickets for a flight or concert. I then have a few server side…

To those who think inbox-0 is a waste of time, because you can just search for email, so why spend even a second organizing it: what causes you to remember to reply to an email sent to you 3 days ago, which is now the 119th email in your inbox? I subscribe to inbox-0 because emails in my inbox need attention of some kind. I'm not advocating spending an inordinate amount of time organizing every email with labels and…

I receive hundreds of useless mails everyday (not filterable spam, just thing I don't care about or have no valuable information), so dealing with each of them to empty the inbox is a waste of time.

Most mail that matters come from specific people (close family, project members, current client...) so it's easy to search, the unexpected important mails and things that needs to be done later just need to be starred.

I feel it's really efficient when the signal/noise ratio is very low.

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