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> Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win for my email workload

If only someone had invented a windowing GUI.

My main issues, now I've set the default to fullish screen, is it's more like Outlook: editing the To/CC fields is annoying, and it wants you to always quote the entire email.

I await a Chrome extension to let me live in the past with people who knew how to use computers.

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>If only someone had invented a windowing GUI.

At work I have to use a mac, it's a PITA to manage multiple non fullscreen windows on it. There is also a fair amount of screen estate lost per window.

I use Slate for this: https://github.com/jigish/slate

Same with Windows, and Linux as they just copy Windows/Mac GUIs and never bother to finish them off. The problem is Raise-on-click, means you can USE overlapping windows, and drag and drop breaks. My theory is all GUIs are fundamentally stuck in the year they were first designed, so 1983 or so for Windows/Mac. Full screen, almost single tasking. RISC OS, being designed in 1986, is better, as a GUI.

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