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>gmail.com -> gmail.com (HTML version)

gmail used to have an option to set HTML as default, but it seems like it's gone.

Only way to get HTML is to click on a link that's available during loading, nothing in the settings to make it permanent.

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Just use this as your bookmark: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/

Thanks. This actually works.

For anyone interested, I just put together a userscript with some rudimentary key assignments for the Basic HTML version of Gmail:

https://pastebin.com/raw/kHyZXcTY

    gi    Go to inbox
    gk    Go to first label inbox
    t     Toggle checkbox of current mail
    mr    Mark checked mails as read
    mu    Mark checked mails as unread
    k     Navigate up in mail list (shift twice as fast)
    j     Navigate down in mail list
    h     Go to older mail(s)
    l     Go to newer mail(s)
    Enter Open mail
    r     Reload
    b     Back
    n     New mail

Thanks a lot! This was the only thing I missed from the JS version, but it wasn't worth the slowdown/heaviness that that version brought with it. Now this gives me the best of both worlds.

Thanks. I just noticed a bug though: You can enter the search field by moving all the way to the top pressing arrow up or k. And then you can defocus the search field by pressing escape. This works now and I posted it on GreaseFork.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/389680-google-mail-gmail-b...

You can definitely make it permanent, it's permanent on my account. Can't remember what I did now...

Generate enough outcry on social media?

After you've clicked on it, there's a bar at the top with an option to "Set basic HTML as default view"

s/there's/there was/

It's gone. That's why I'm posting about it.

It still displays "Load basic HTML (for slow connections)" at the right bottom section of the loading page. :/

Yes it does. Like I said in my first comment, I have to click it every time I load gmail, because "Set basic HTML as default view" is gone.

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