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Re:Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail by georgebarnett on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @06:15PM (#18135284)
I’m not particularly looking forward to the day I’m forced into the new interface. It’s slow as hell on Firefox and is continually dropping keyboard shortcut events unless I type each. one. slowly. and. deliberately.
Re:Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail by everyone on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:33PM (#18135695)
Yeah it takes like 20 seconds to load on Firefox.. Whats they deal with that; Is that on purpose to force people to use chrome?? I'd rather drop gmail, but I'll need to change my email for like 100 accounts which will be a massive pain...

Actually is there any way around that?

Re:Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail by thatsaguy on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:55PM (#18135836)
Enable forwarding to the new address. Update email contacts and accounts as needed.

Be sure to check that forwarding exists on your new provider, just in case you'll have to do the same when switching again.

Better yet: buy your own domain and use a service that allows you to use it.

Re:Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail by p1necone on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:56PM (#18135848)
You can set up gmail to forward messages to your new address.
Re:Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail by ivanfon on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @09:54PM (#18136496)
> I’m not particularly looking forward to the day I’m forced into the new interface. It’s slow as hell on Firefox and is continually dropping keyboard shortcut events unless I type each. one. slowly. and. deliberately.

> I’m not particularly looking forward to the day I’m forced into the new interface. It’s slow as hell on Firefox and is continually dropping keyboard shortcut events unless I type each. one. slowly. and. deliberately.

Use an alternate client, like Thunderbird or mutt on desktop and K9-Mail on Android.

Re:Modify new Gmail interface to be more like classic Gmail by abrowne on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @06:40PM (#18135420)
I use FastMail at home, but we have G Suite at work. The worst is when opening a new message from a mailto: href, I used to be able to start typing as soon the text box appeared. Now I often end up sending a (nearly?) blank message, which I luckily have always caught with the undo feature (but still!). I don't know if it's catching my return after the greeting and triggering the send button or what, but it's annoying!