Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by jcranmer on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:57PM (#18379763)

... what the hell is gmail doing to suck up that much memory? It shouldn't take more than 1KB per message to store all potentially-relevant message headers, and even the textual content [i.e., no attachments] is unlikely to consume more than a few KB. That takes 100,000s of messages to reach 400MB, which is roughly on the order of "save every message you have ever received for several years."

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by jjeaff on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:15PM (#18384526)

They have to track your every mouse move, what you type, when you type, where you hover your cursor, how long you took to type an email, who knows what else. Extreme surveillance takes extreme resources.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by bassman9000 on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:33PM (#18384655)

There's an increased amount of crap being added, like the side menus.

And I have pretty much all behaviors (e.g. menu on hover) disabled.

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