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Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by gambiting on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:14AM (#27590682)
Yep. I recall couple years ago when Google updated their Gmail interface(wtihout any way to go back of course), Gmail suddenly became unbearably slow on older machines. Laptops which I could easily use for managing my emails were now stupidly slow, because someone somewhere at Google decided that having a slighly nicer interface is worth the extra CPU time. I wonder how much that one single change cost the world in burnt electricity, just to produce some useless features in gmail.
Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by nwallin on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:49AM (#27593206)
You can access gmail via IMAP/SMTP. Any desktop e-mail client will be significantly lighter and faster than any browser based webmail client. And I don't care how shitty your computer is, mutt will run snappily on it.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229

Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by jamespwilliams on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:24AM (#27590770)
Gmail does have a "Basic HTML" mode, FWIW.
Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday by gambiting on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:14AM (#27591174)
And it's a step below the interface they had not that long ago, which was fine and which worked on literally any machine very very fast. The "basic HTML" mode is well....extremely basic.

That's the interface I have in mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBI2liYIvdY

I don't feel like the current 2021 interface offers any advantages over it, and yet it uses far more resources to load and open things smoothly.