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Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful by mrbonner on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:05PM (#18096603)
I have a 2015 MBP with 16GB of RAM and a core i5. The experience using Firefox with the new Gmail UI with this laptop is nothing but sluggish. I have to switch back to the old UI. I am not sure what I would do after Google takes away the old UI. What the hell is going on at Google?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful by PurpleRamen on Saturday September 29, 2018 @07:11AM (#18099772)
> What the hell is going on at Google?

Iterations are going on. There is a school of thought that believes any kind of movement is progress. May it movement into good or bad direction. Thats why companys regulary rehaul their apps, the design and corperate identity. It always end with some people becoming unhappy, but hopefully more people being happy.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful by peatmoss on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:52AM (#18100672)
Change for change’s sake. I feel like F/OSS has a potential advantage here in being able to take the time to build durable, long-lived, stable software.

The web-everything world we live in right now has led to a cambrian explosion in new UI metaphors and visual design. I can only hope at some point we all wake up and decide that GNUMail running on GNU Hurd has gotten really stable, and that maybe we should all just re-adopt open protocols and native apps.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful by RichardCA on Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:20PM (#18102892)
Their culture seems to be based on rotating new product managers in every 2-3 years. It's logical that a new manger will want to make their mark and prove they "did something".
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful by kirb on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:00AM (#18098944)
Firefox has severe performance issues on high dpi displays on macOS. It’s gotten better in the latest nightlies but still an issue. As an unfortunate (for your eyes) workaround you can do Get Info on Firefox.app and enable low resolution compatibility mode, then restart Firefox.
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