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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by manigandham on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @06:51PM (#10543604)
On a puny Macbook Air with 4gb ram and Chrome with 30 tabs open I'm getting perfect framerates and instantaneous UI... perhaps this is something local to your machine?

It's hard to imagine that Google would make a UI that slow given their extensive optimizations.

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Re:Gmail, We Need to Talk by iainmerrick on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:19AM (#10546036)
It's true! Google Maps is really fast on some computers and impossibly slow on others. The only fix is "Lite Mode" as mentioned above, and unfortunately there's no link for that on the main page.

They aren't testing their cool WebGL version widely enough, so it fails badly for many users. (Edit: or wait, is it just a 2D <canvas>? Either way, it should be fast in Safari and it's not.)

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