<story><title>Fast Software, the Best Software</title><url>https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markdog12</author><text>Gmail is now &lt;i&gt;crazy&lt;/i&gt; slow for me. Used to be nice and snappy, I dread even clicking a button in there now. I even pay for it with GSuite.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I sigh — actually sigh — whenever I have to open Photoshop&lt;p&gt;Yep, quad-core laptop with fast SSD and I dread opening it. I remember being an early adopter with an SSD and I just used to open PS to see how fast it opened. They took that feeling away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asark</author><text>Use the &amp;quot;basic HTML&amp;quot; version and make it your default view. On mobile it&amp;#x27;s even worth putting up with its more desktopy appearance to avoid the bloated crap that is modern Gmail.&lt;p&gt;The site takes so f*$%ing long to load you should have no problem clicking the &amp;quot;Slow? Try the Basic HTML version&amp;quot; link, maybe with 2-3 tries to figure out where it is (it&amp;#x27;s a small link). Then you should see an option to set it as your default.&lt;p&gt;Bonus: you can actually leave it open in a tab without eating three figure MB of memory and sometimes slowing down your machine doing god-knows-what in the background. Only downside is no notifications for new mail, but 1) that assumes you consider that a downside, and 2) that&amp;#x27;s what actual, native email clients are for.</text></comment>
<story><title>Fast Software, the Best Software</title><url>https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>markdog12</author><text>Gmail is now &lt;i&gt;crazy&lt;/i&gt; slow for me. Used to be nice and snappy, I dread even clicking a button in there now. I even pay for it with GSuite.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I sigh — actually sigh — whenever I have to open Photoshop&lt;p&gt;Yep, quad-core laptop with fast SSD and I dread opening it. I remember being an early adopter with an SSD and I just used to open PS to see how fast it opened. They took that feeling away.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lph</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just you. Gmail has become so slow to load for me that I wonder if they&amp;#x27;ve deliberately sabotaged it on Firefox. Amazing how it&amp;#x27;s 2019 and web apps somehow seem to be less usable than they were ten years ago. I miss fast desktop apps.</text></comment>