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The new look Gmail has performed very poorly for me. Hanging for extended periods while changing views, and during search. I'm not sure why a UI refresh would have such an effect but I've been avoiding switching because of this

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I have to agree with this. I have upgraded (or rather it upgraded for me a couple of weeks ago), and now everything I do is delayed by a couple of seconds. Archive an email? I can't close the tab otherwise the browser tells me I'm going to lose data. Send an email? Ditto. I wouldn't mind a better UI, but beside the added lag I don't find there's anything better or different than before.

What happens when you revert to the old Gmail? I'm wondering if you get the speed of the old Gmail back or if it instead just reverts to the non-industrial design elements of the previous version of Gmail. Today a friend told me he reverted all the way back to HTML Gmail because he was so annoyed with the non-responsiveness.

I reverted back to the previous version (not the HTML one), and it was faster.

Same here. It's like it refuses to remove the [X new] flag until I've seen something multiple times and the whole UI feels sluggish and unresponsive.

I hate how it collapses the left menu bar (Inbox, Drafts, Sent etc) to icons only and then has a big lag to open the menu drawer and show the texts when you hover over it. Gmail was better when it was simpler.

Doesn't it stay pinned if you click the hamburger icon on the top left?

Ah, never knew that!

You can change that so it's always expanded.

I hate their “new” tabs that tries to categorize emails. It’s just extra clicks to get to the emails I want. It’s forced me to go back to a dedicated email app.

What are you talking about man? You can easily turn it off in "configure inbox" section.

Can you? If so it’s not obvious at all.

Yea but disables other things as well. Like the ability to snooze

Enabling/disabling tabs via "Configure Inbox", or through Settings > Inbox > Categories does not effect the ability to snooze. The only thing it effects is whether emails are sorted into different tabs or not.

Tabs were not something just introduced in the new UI, the have been in Gmail for 5 years. You can turn them off in settings, or drag and drop emails into different tabs to train it. Gmail has a very high degree of customization and available settings.

I never knew you could drag and drop to retrain. That needs to be more discoverable.

The feature/lab "Multiple Inboxes" overrides this. That's why I have been using and continue to use through Inbox and all the latest Gmail changes.

I wish there were something in between Multiple Inboxes and tabs. I would like to make my own tabbed categories for my inbox.

You are looking for Labels.

I hate how when hovering over labels or threads it hides the information that was previously shown, such as number of unreads in a label or received time for threads. The UX of the new UI is amazingly bad.

I've been using the gmail website since beta (20 year beta, I know, but this was extremely early, when it was invite only) for my email and I just switched to Thunderbird about two weeks ago. It really is that bad.

Make sure you don't have custom user-agents. I had the same problem and it was because the app was trying to use APIs that didn't exist on Firefox.

inbox wasn't a great performer either, to be fair.

I think it's complete crap, that's my diplomatic opinion of it (NSFW to post what I really think of vindictive, incompetent, user hostile garbage like this). Slow, high CPU usage, laptop gets hot and fans go to full while loading it, and stay rather high once loaded. My biggest complaint? No opt out apparently. http://fortune.com/2018/06/05/g-suite-gmail-update-opt-out/

Edit: Aha! This might be a reason to try Thunderbird 60 out.

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