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Mail.app doesn’t really work for me. The search function is crap, and it’s the main strength of Gmail. Apart from search, it work OK, I guess.

That said, I run an 8GB MacBook Air and have never experienced any problem with gmail in Safari.

Interesting, where does search on Mail fail for you? I’ve always found it extraordinarily good

So have I. And incredibly snappy as well.

A number of the Gmail features are unique to the web app, not standard email filters so while Mail.app will get you the core features you'll still need the ability to run the web app from time to time (eg: updating mail filters)

I finally upgraded to Sonoma and freed up about 20GB of disk space (I’m close to my 512GB capacity) by switching to gmail as a PWA. I much prefer gmail to mail.app but was always losing it in my many open tabs, so the PWA is perfect.

I just deleted some shit.

exactly. I have 12GB of gmail all synced with mail.app and it's using ~540MB ram.