May 08
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Gmail Slow for you? Try these tips
I’ve made a couple of posts recently about Gmail and had feedback that for some people Gmail runs slow. You might want to try these one at a time to see if they help. If you do the first one and Gmail’s fast enough then why go on?
This post won’t solve everyone’s but you can try these tips for a start. For more information, some suggestions have links to Google’s Gmail Help Center labeled “(read first)”. These links should open in a new browser or tab and will give you more info on what you are about to do:
- Log into Gmail, click Settings and on the General tab you will see a dropdown where you can set the number of email conversations per page, set it to its lowest setting of 25 conversations per page. Don’t forget to save changes.
- (read first) While you are ion Gmail’s settings click on the Web Clips tab and uncheck the “Show my web clips above the Inbox” checkbox. Don’t forget to save changes.
- Read the Google Gmail Help Center’s help item Gmail is Slow
- (read first) Disable chat, scroll down to the bottom and click “turn off chat” in the second line from the bottom
- (read first) View in HTML, scroll down to the bottom and click “basic HTML” in the second line from the bottom
- (read first) Try http://mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser to stop gmail from doing a browser check when you login
- (first make sure you have all you need to reactivate/re-install) Minimize javascripts and remote calls – are you one of those cutting edge users that’s tricked out Gmail? Maybe you’ve skinned Gmail, are using it as your personal online hard drive, have it showing your Remember the Milk to do list, or other Gmail-related add-ons or plug ins? If you’ve got enough of them it may slow down your Gmail, try turning some or all of them off and see if it makes a difference.
- (read first) (also read first) Try turning off your contact’s pictures. Click Settings and on the General tab to the right of Contact’s Pictures Only show pictures that I’ve chosen for my contacts. If you haven’t chosen any pictures then you shouldn’t see any.
- Turn off snippets. Click Settings and on the General tab to the right of Snipetts click “ – Show subject only.”
- Do you have like 100 different labels? Maybe you’ve got too many… try pairing down the number of labels you use and get roganized at the same time. Especially if your Inbox has LOTS of emails and the function of the archive button is a mystery.
- Check the Gmail Help Center
Did any of these help? Make it worse? Drop a comment below so I can improve these tips!
REFERENCES:
https://mail.google.com/support/
http://www.bloganything.net/187/improve-gmail-loading-time
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/3262
