Gmail's Simple Html Mode is much better than standard mode (mail.google.com)

The new Gmail takes so long to load and organize itself. I really do like the speed of classic html. It'd be nice if more web services had such "low bandwith" modes.

The old new gmail was pretty excellent. I gave up completely on the new one and reverted to the basic html version. It took forever to load, and I continually ran into the "this operation hasn't completed yet" dialog when I'd delete some mails and then tried to navigate to some other site. Just very half-baked and sloppy, it should never have gotten out the door in the current state.

Shhhh. Don't let Google hear you. They'll remove HTML mode and force everyone to use the new site.

I've been using the simple HTML mode myself for the past few weeks. Much quicker and nicer, and refreshingly antiquated! Reminds me of my old Mindspring webmail.

The new interface worked reasonably well for me on my work PC, but not on my home PC (which is admittedly out of date). Clicking a new message would cause the "Loading..." label to pop up and never go away. The message wouldn't load unless I did a full Ctrl+F5 reload of the page.

I missed some of the automatic categorization of messages in the new interface, but now think seeing things is one big list is clearer. And labels still work to see subsets.

I see this too much nowadays, people who want to use cool technologies to make new software, without knowledge if it is better for the user. It is not progress, it is change.

The new new gmail is flawed in many ways. In particular, the new gmail removed the the method to hover over an email in list and quickly find all emails from a sender. Am I the only user of that feature? Also, the number of times I've had load errors on the newest version already exceeds the number of load errors I've had in the last year for the previous version. Back to old school html gmail is the solution.

So is the rest of the internet.