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Dear Google,

Please stop adding things to my Gmail that make it a worst email reader. If you want to make some sort of social center, please create a new tool that ties into Gmail. Gmail was a really great product 2 years ago, but you keep adding dumb shit to it and making it less stable. Please stop. Thank you.

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The additional functionality is okay with me, so long as Google keeps it in the Labs section.

Just out of curiosity, what is being added that is making gmail less stable for you? In the years I have been using gmail, I've never had any issues, and I currently have 17 labs features running (FWIW).

I'm really not sure what makes it unstable for me. I've had issues across browsers (Firefox, Chrome and Safari) and OSes (Windows and Mac OS X). Something the page just stops responding, or clicks result in it's error message showing. Or clicks do nothing and I have to reload the entire thing. Nothing reproducible just lots of small issues that are basically crashes.

I use no labs features.

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