I hate to admit it, but I'm finding a few things to like.  And I found
a chrome/firefox solution to the screen space problem.

First of all, I really do like one less window on my screen, replaced
by a tab in chrome.  I finally found DnD but alas only works in the
mailbox view, not the individual email.  No huge deal.

But the saver for me was finding this: http://goo.gl/V42vv

It removes the adds etc from the right margin, moves the useful
buttons/links to the top of the middle view, and makes the middle
column stretch to the right margin.  Very useful.  Amazingly enough it
uses css only .. no javascript.

I did find out why my emails to friam etc (i.e. posts to lists) are
not sent to me: Google puts my original in the sent folder/label and
figures that I dont want a duplicate.  Wrong!  But at least I know its
by design and not an IMAP/gmail screw up.

   -- Owen


On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:48 PM, James Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been using Gmail and the web interface for years now. I actually
> like it... There must be things you want to so with mail that I just
> don't need to do or something.
>
> I find the web UI quite usable--for how I use it.
>
> ~~J
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Like many a damn fool, I'm seriously trying to use Gmail, via the web 
>> interface.
>>
>> Now, I (possibly mistakenly) presume you, fellow gmail users, are not
>> going through the tortue I am.  In plain words, it Sucks.  Really!
>>
>> So I must ask you to answer one of two questions:
>> 1 - How do you bear it? .. Do you have a stunt to make the web UI more 
>> usable?
>> 2 - If not, do you access gmail in some other way?  An email client?
>> Or some other way to avoid the Horror Of It All?
>>
>> I will go through a couple of weeks and hope for the best.  But
>> clearly if you can handle this, you have Given Up.
>>
>>   -- Owen
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