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Re:Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files by julianlam on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:04AM (#22522911)
I feel like Gmail has lost that edge. Email being a text medium should be fast, but Gmail using up many hundreds of megabytes of RAM and taking many seconds to load really feels like they've lost sight of what reading an email is about.
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Re:Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files by wyqydsyq on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:30AM (#22523005)
I too despise the "kitchen sink" approach seen in Gmail's UI where they are trying to cram every unwanted and unnecessary feature into your view and RAM at once.

If you used "Inbox for Gmail" before Google abandoned it and miss the much cleaner and focused UI, this Chrome extension upgrades Gmail to have the same styles:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simplify-gmail/pbm...

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