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Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, February 3, 2007
17 years ago3,316 views

Anyone tried it lately? MAN it takes a looooong time to load.

LOGGING IN..

LOADING...

(then it inexplicably has to change color..)

then you're in.

I've fired off 5 Gmails by the time this thing loads.

ACK.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Heh. What I found most annoying in everyday Yahoo Mail Beta usage are the giant graphic ads.

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Y! Mail 18 seconds vs Gmail 9 seconds (Gmail HTML version took ~1 second).
Worth to note that Yahoo Mail loads more junks.

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

It takes my PC 4 seconds to arrive at the Gmail page from the time I double click the mail notifier icon in the systray.

Since there's not a Y! Mail equivilant, it takes 12 seconds for me to arrive at the Y! Mail Beta page after I click on the Y! mail icon in the toolbar.

GMail loads three times faster. I just wish they had a quick compose link on the personalized page.

JennyPenny [PersonRank 6]

17 years ago #

Yeah, it's really slow, but I like it. It has a really nice interface. I usually read something while I wait for the loading sign to disappear.

You can block ads with Adblock Plus extension if you are using FF.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I've heard that Adblock Plus blocks Google Analytics, is that true?

Brinke Guthrie [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

it's all about speed for me. i click the link and whammo it's there.

Juan [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

have you tried hosts file to kill ads?

Juan [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

Is there a Yahoo HTML mail interface like for Gmail?
I wonder what we can do when forced to the new version.

Randy J. [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

Phillip: That seems to be the case for dutchblock. There's a thread on the Adblock Plus forums regarding the issue here: http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8823&sid=20c93f3f6857ba05be3d7a573002cf84

...doesn't really affect me though because I just have NoScript block Analytics.

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