8 Fast Tips for Slow Loading Gmail
Sometimes Gmail takes much longer time than expected particularly for dial-up internet users. For example: After reading a message and then clicking back to inbox. It keeps on displaying Loading or Still Working at the top even for a simple action.
In some cases Gmail fails to load. An alternate method for Gmail login is iGoogle with Gmail module which lets you check mails pretty fast. If you still want to use Gmail, following are the tips to make it fast:
Login Fast And Quickly Load Gmail To Save Time
- By Default, Gmail Displays 50 recent mails or conversations. Go to Gmail Settings and under General tab, change this to 25 so that Gmail doesn’t spend much time in getting older mails.
Additionally, you can turn off the keyboard shortcuts so that Gmail doesn’t check for key strokes.
- Use older version of Gmail that is with HTML interface. Though the new Ajax interface with extra features wouldn’t be available but it would dramatically decrease loading time.
- If you just want Gmail only to read text messages then you can use mobile version from http://m.gmail.com. This stripped down version has minimum interface. There is no Gtalk integration, no ads and no labels. (Sometimes after login into mobile interface, Gmail automatically takes you to HTML version. Just hit the back button once to access mobile version from computer browser).
- Install Google gears on your computer. It will download and save your mails in your hard-disk. So the navigation will be fast and you can even work offline. You can also use Outlook or Thunderbird to download emails on your computer but they not recommended on public computers. You can clearly feel the difference in speed on switching between old messages.
- Though you can use webclips as RSS reader, turn them off from settings panel for a slight performance gain.
- Directly Login into Gmail from https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail. Gmail by default will make you login to Google account and then it redirects to Gmail.
- Whenever you type in Gmail.com at address bar, Gmail tries to detect the type of browser and then settle into it. You can bypass this step by using http://mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser.
- Decrease the number of Labs Features that are enabled. Try to use only those which you really need. Labs mean that they are in experimental phase and hence couldn’t guarantee performance. You can turn off all labs features by using https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0.
- Switch between multiple Gmail accounts without signing out and signing in again.
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I think Gmail has been funny these days, sometimes not responding and not working either
Gmail has reached its critical mass. It’s very slow regardless whether you set 1, 10 or 50 conversations per page. I have make it barely nothing and it’s still slow or “no information available” message most of the time. Most of the time means 70-80% of the time. Time to migrate to another email.
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Thank you
Pett
Another great tip is to add ?nocheckbrowser to the end of the URL: https://mail.google.com/mail/?nocheckbrowser. This causes Gmail to load very quickly.
I’d just like to share that users of Norton internet security in january 2010 may have experienced a significant slowdown of gmail. The solution for these is to turn off the phishing filter in norton.
This issue came up at the same time that google switched from http to https as default, which adds to the confusion
Thanks Robert for this awesome peace of info. :)
Even my friends have been facing problems for the same.
good blog.. my 2 cents to load gmail faster.. try gmail gadget on igoogle page…not only it loads way faster than gmail but the icing is there r no advts in ur messages when u read it from the gadget…
just remove the other gadgets from ur igoogle home-tab n just keep the calendar n mail gadget on the home tab..n enjoy the difference of a super lightning fast gmail n calendar :)
u can create a separate tab for other sundry stuff…