Talk:Gmail/Archive 28

Anti-Hotmail?
anyone else noticed that gmail has problems sending emails to hotmail accounts —Preceding unsigned comment added by Casket56 (talk • contribs) 02:26, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Nope. I have not seen any difference sending mail to Hotmail accounts as to any other accounts. JagDragon♫ (talk) 12:11, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Too long?
User:Spitfire19 has tagged the article as being too long. In what respect is the article too long, and how should this be addressed? --Oscarthecat (talk) 18:09, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * First off, a signifigant portion of Gmail does not need to exist. For example, Yahoo Mail contains no such information. Nor does it go too deep into the application. Gmail sounds more like a product indroduction and index of all features, a good portion of which is not encylopediac (See: WP:NOTMANUAL). These portions need to be edited down as such.Spitfire 19 (Talk) 18:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Seems like typical Google fanboys droning on and on. Looks like Wikipedia is doing a pretty good product endorsment. Funny thing is usage wise Gmail is still behind, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail. I'd suggest creating sperate pages if preserving feature info is that important —IncidentFlux [ TalkBack 20:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I was under the impression that Gmail was considered having a particularly nice interface. It certainly has a rather unconventional user interface. So the interface should be discussed, but each feature does not need to be enumerated one-by-one. Perhaps just a general overview. ~The Little Green Man from Mars(My Page)(Where do I live?) 03:07, 20 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree that the article is too long and too detailed for an encyclopedia entry. Much of it is user manual stuff, which is not appropriate. Much of the article is pretty close to fancruft. I'll have a kick at it in the next day or so and see if it can be tightened up somewhat. - Ahunt (talk) 23:50, 20 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Having started work on the intro para and having read through everything else there carefully I agree with the editor who tagged the Interface section. I think it is far too long for this article. As the tag indicates I think splitting it into a new article would be the best approach. Unless there are any objections here I will do so. - Ahunt (talk) 12:33, 22 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Lacking any immediate objections I have gone ahead and created an article entitled Gmail interface and will remove the overlaps from this article. - Ahunt (talk) 14:57, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

High CPU load
Several people have raised concerns in various discussion forums on why the Internet Explorer and Firefox CPU usage is so high when reading Gmail. I have however not seen any good explanation. Any more information? 79.136.45.134 (talk) 22:42, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Gmail uses a lot of JavaScript, which puts a load on the application. As Firefox and IE have relatively old, out-of-date and inefficient JavaScript engines, there is heavy load on the CPU. Newer JavsScript engines, such as V8 running in Google Chrome, do not put such a heavy load on the computer's resources. JagDragon♫ (talk) 12:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Interesting. We need a reference showing details on this.
 * On some computers, the CPU load stays high for hours, also if I don't click on any links. For example when the browser shows the inbox message list. What is Gmail doing during this time? I have only seen this problem on computers that has the the content-control software CyberPatrol, the personal firewall Zonealarm, and the desktop search program Google Desktop. Perhaps one of these causes the problem. I have not noticed this problem for any other web page. Mange01 (talk) 13:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)


 * There are articles in Gmail's Help Center ( for example) that acknowledge the fact that certain software packages slow down the application. Tuvok[T@lk/Improve] 07:38, 5 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Interesting. On second thought, I believe that CyberPatrol and Gmail in combination are causing the problems in my case, but no information is shown about this issue on neither of two companies web pages. Mange01 (talk) 22:27, 9 November 2008 (UTC)