If you don't like being subject to changes in your UI, then stop using a webapp that you have no control over. Use a sane client over IMAP and be done with it.
Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
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Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#242Something that gets me in a little trouble from time to time, forwarding an email includes the entire previous conversation chain...which isn't normally a problem, but gmail compresses the previous chain into a collapsed [...] box that I sometimes forget is there. So on occasion I forward parts of emails to other parties that probably shouldn't be seeing those other bits. I have to remember to expand it, then delete…
Forwarding the entire thread with each email is also bad netiquette. If anyone still cares.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#243To avoid being distracted by the gmail inbox and to have a clean composition interface, I always keep this URL bookmarked, and it still works w/ the new compose: https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&source=mailt...
I just use the old basic html view. On the one hand, it's ugly as sin, but on the bright side, you can open any link in the UI in a new tab and it works as expected, which is like a breath of fresh air. So I can just middle click the compose button to get a new full-screen compose, or middle click threads from the inbox.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#244Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#245Why not just hold shift when you click "compose"?
this is close to the old functionality, but not the exact same.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube: * Buffering was nerfed/broken some time ago. I can no longer watch 720p+ videos on youtube at all. * Changing video quality now has a long and unavoidable delay, and often fails outright. * Google are evidently uneasy about the profile name that I signed up with, and have been repeatedly nudging me to change it. I don't know how to reassure them about my choice. * Advertising. Everywhere.
I hate that Google "created" a youtube account for me, just because I use Gmail doesn't mean I want a youtube account (I don't). One day I forget to sign out of Gmail, I browse to Youtube, and bam, now I have a Youtube account, I'm signed in, and my video history is tracked, and I have to manually turn that off. I didn't ask for that.
If you're not on Google+, you can delete that.
Re: Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose
#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've especially been missing the ability to make directions with multiple stops (I used to use that feature about 50% of the time). Also, the interface is a lot slower - it's tolerable on my 1 year old computer, but it's close to unusable on my 5 year old laptop.
It works just fine for me in chrome on my six-year-old laptop. What browser are you using?
Chrome on a 4 year old desktop. And chrome on a low end 1 year old desktop. Slow for both, not to the point of being unusable, but slow enough to be annoying.
Even on my new i5 laptop, it's not quite as snappy as the old version.