Is it just me or has gmail became as slow as yahoo? [modified]
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One reason why I initially moved to gmail even though I had a paid yahoo account was because gmail was fast while yahoo was painfully slow at times but it seems the last week or so gmail has been pretty slow at times almost to the point that I may just install a mail server on my pc at home and serve my own mail. [EDIT]And what I am seeing here is sometimes I get a new message in my box and try to open it and wait 1 to 5 minutes to see the email. Very frustrating, especially when the mail is small. The same thing happens with sending. This happens at work and at home so its most likely not on my end.. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16 PM
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One reason why I initially moved to gmail even though I had a paid yahoo account was because gmail was fast while yahoo was painfully slow at times but it seems the last week or so gmail has been pretty slow at times almost to the point that I may just install a mail server on my pc at home and serve my own mail. [EDIT]And what I am seeing here is sometimes I get a new message in my box and try to open it and wait 1 to 5 minutes to see the email. Very frustrating, especially when the mail is small. The same thing happens with sending. This happens at work and at home so its most likely not on my end.. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16 PM
Yeah the Gmail UI has got a lot slower recently. It used to be very fast when it first came out :sigh:
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One reason why I initially moved to gmail even though I had a paid yahoo account was because gmail was fast while yahoo was painfully slow at times but it seems the last week or so gmail has been pretty slow at times almost to the point that I may just install a mail server on my pc at home and serve my own mail. [EDIT]And what I am seeing here is sometimes I get a new message in my box and try to open it and wait 1 to 5 minutes to see the email. Very frustrating, especially when the mail is small. The same thing happens with sending. This happens at work and at home so its most likely not on my end.. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16 PM
Same thing here too. Sometimes the "loading ..." progress bar goes all the close to the end and appears stuck them. I have to give it a refresh to reload. :((
Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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One reason why I initially moved to gmail even though I had a paid yahoo account was because gmail was fast while yahoo was painfully slow at times but it seems the last week or so gmail has been pretty slow at times almost to the point that I may just install a mail server on my pc at home and serve my own mail. [EDIT]And what I am seeing here is sometimes I get a new message in my box and try to open it and wait 1 to 5 minutes to see the email. Very frustrating, especially when the mail is small. The same thing happens with sending. This happens at work and at home so its most likely not on my end.. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16 PM
I don't use the gmail GUI much, I mostly access my mail via ThunderBird, so I hadn't noticed this. Out of curiosity I have just tried it out and it seemed fine to me, even though I am on a relatively slow connection. I am only using 2MB of my available space though, do you think that there might be a correlation?
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I don't use the gmail GUI much, I mostly access my mail via ThunderBird, so I hadn't noticed this. Out of curiosity I have just tried it out and it seemed fine to me, even though I am on a relatively slow connection. I am only using 2MB of my available space though, do you think that there might be a correlation?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Henry Minute wrote:
Out of curiosity I have just tried it out and it seemed fine to me, even though I am on a relatively slow connection.
It does not happen all the time. Just frequently enough to make me consider other options..
Henry Minute wrote:
I am only using 2MB of my available space though, do you think that there might be a correlation?
Here is what I get:
You are currently using 1776 MB (24%) of your 7313 MB.
John
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Henry Minute wrote:
Out of curiosity I have just tried it out and it seemed fine to me, even though I am on a relatively slow connection.
It does not happen all the time. Just frequently enough to make me consider other options..
Henry Minute wrote:
I am only using 2MB of my available space though, do you think that there might be a correlation?
Here is what I get:
You are currently using 1776 MB (24%) of your 7313 MB.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
You are currently using 1776 MB (24%) of your 7313 MB.
Although that is orders of magnitude greater than mine, it is nowhere near as large as some claims here in the lounge about 4 - 5 months ago.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Henry Minute wrote:
Out of curiosity I have just tried it out and it seemed fine to me, even though I am on a relatively slow connection.
It does not happen all the time. Just frequently enough to make me consider other options..
Henry Minute wrote:
I am only using 2MB of my available space though, do you think that there might be a correlation?
Here is what I get:
You are currently using 1776 MB (24%) of your 7313 MB.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
You are currently using 1776 MB (24%) of your 7313 MB.
mine is only
You are currently using 250 MB (3%) of your 7313 MB.I am very picky as to who I give my google email. If it is someone who is less trusted I hand them my yahoo account, and the worst one get my excite email account, which they are free to spam it as they like. I use work email for CP ;) . I check google all day, yahoo once 1 week, excite as per need bases. This has served me well for long time :) .Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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One reason why I initially moved to gmail even though I had a paid yahoo account was because gmail was fast while yahoo was painfully slow at times but it seems the last week or so gmail has been pretty slow at times almost to the point that I may just install a mail server on my pc at home and serve my own mail. [EDIT]And what I am seeing here is sometimes I get a new message in my box and try to open it and wait 1 to 5 minutes to see the email. Very frustrating, especially when the mail is small. The same thing happens with sending. This happens at work and at home so its most likely not on my end.. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16 PM
The web browser you're accessing it with has some effect on the responsiveness. Have you tried Chrome?
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The web browser you're accessing it with has some effect on the responsiveness. Have you tried Chrome?
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
Judah Himango wrote:
The web browser you're accessing it with has some effect on the responsiveness. Have you tried Chrome?
hmmm...let me guess www.microsoft.com -> run better on IE www.mozilla.org -> runs better on FF Got it ;P
Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
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Judah Himango wrote:
The web browser you're accessing it with has some effect on the responsiveness. Have you tried Chrome?
hmmm...let me guess www.microsoft.com -> run better on IE www.mozilla.org -> runs better on FF Got it ;P
Yusuf Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]
Sure, that too, but Chrome has the fastest Javascript engine of all the released stable browsers, so that might contribute to the speed since Gmail is Javascript-heavy.
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One reason why I initially moved to gmail even though I had a paid yahoo account was because gmail was fast while yahoo was painfully slow at times but it seems the last week or so gmail has been pretty slow at times almost to the point that I may just install a mail server on my pc at home and serve my own mail. [EDIT]And what I am seeing here is sometimes I get a new message in my box and try to open it and wait 1 to 5 minutes to see the email. Very frustrating, especially when the mail is small. The same thing happens with sending. This happens at work and at home so its most likely not on my end.. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16 PM
You should have been a little patient. Yahoo has updated their mail and it fast. I was considering switching but I'm glad I didn't.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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You should have been a little patient. Yahoo has updated their mail and it fast. I was considering switching but I'm glad I didn't.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Yahoo has updated their mail and it fast.
I last used it two days ago, and while it was a good deal faster than it used to be, i wouldn't necessarily call it fast. And search fails to find messages in the first page of my Inbox when i search for the subject or sender, so i don't really trust it to find anything else. :sigh:
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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You should have been a little patient. Yahoo has updated their mail and it fast. I was considering switching but I'm glad I didn't.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
I still have the paid account and I do not like it. I just renewed @ $19.95 in January only because I have not converted all my senders over to gmail yet. In my opinion yahoo mail is still slow and the new interface does not work well at all when you have folders with 30,000 email messages in them so I must use the classic.
John
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I still have the paid account and I do not like it. I just renewed @ $19.95 in January only because I have not converted all my senders over to gmail yet. In my opinion yahoo mail is still slow and the new interface does not work well at all when you have folders with 30,000 email messages in them so I must use the classic.
John
30,000 messages is an awful lot. I bet the new interface does not work well with that. The classic interface is really dated. I don't know that any web based email will work really well with that many messages.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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30,000 messages is an awful lot. I bet the new interface does not work well with that. The classic interface is really dated. I don't know that any web based email will work really well with that many messages.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
That is just in 1 folder out of 25. I probably have 2 times that total messages in my all of my folders.
John
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One reason why I initially moved to gmail even though I had a paid yahoo account was because gmail was fast while yahoo was painfully slow at times but it seems the last week or so gmail has been pretty slow at times almost to the point that I may just install a mail server on my pc at home and serve my own mail. [EDIT]And what I am seeing here is sometimes I get a new message in my box and try to open it and wait 1 to 5 minutes to see the email. Very frustrating, especially when the mail is small. The same thing happens with sending. This happens at work and at home so its most likely not on my end.. [/EDIT]
John
modified on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 4:16 PM
gmail response today is pretty typical for me. Loads in 3.6 seconds according to Fasterfox.
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gmail response today is pretty typical for me. Loads in 3.6 seconds according to Fasterfox.
Best wishes, Hans
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Hans Dietrich wrote:
gmail response today is pretty typical for me. Loads in 3.6 seconds according to Fasterfox.
Its a lot better now. 8 hours ago for me it was acting pretty cranky. I would get an email and see the title and then wait minutes for it to finally open. And if I sent a message I would sometimes be in the same boat. One thing to note is like every day I probably read 300 emails and written 25 replies.
John
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The web browser you're accessing it with has some effect on the responsiveness. Have you tried Chrome?
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I am waiting for the Linux version before I mess with that. I develop on windows and linux at about 50% each so I pretty much refuse to use any browser that is not compatible with both platforms since this is the most used application that I have. Also now a second requirement is the ability to share bookmarks across every instance so if I find a good website at home on 64 bit linux when I login to my 32 bit XP machine at work I automatically see the bookmark. Now only if there was an easy way for me to synchronize the browser plugins /addins I have on the 10 or so machines I use just about ever day.
John