KenK wrote:
Paul wrote in news
KenK wrote:
As I mentioned in previous emails I am very disappointed in the new
Gmail that installed itself very recently. Extremely slow on my XP
system. A previous such install included the option to revert to the
'classic' gmail. This one doesn't. I tried Mozilla support but there
seems to be no option to ask them for such information. Can't find a
Gmail or Mozilla newsgroup that seems appropriate. Google hasn't
turned up anything using the search phrases I tried.

Maybe it's just me.

Any suggestions?

YIA

Can you show us a web picture of this thing ?

I hate to show the home page; it has many of my correspondents, email
titles, etc. Rather private info. Can't think of any other illustration,
Notsdire how I'd send a picture of the page anyhow.

Gmail is a web mail product.

I just use it with my browser as a regular email app. What does web mail
mean?

It also has options for POP3 or IMAP, and those interfaces
allow the usage of Thunderbird perhaps.

You talk of something being "installed", which
implies a POP3 or IMAP client.

It replaced itself on my system with a new version without asking for
permission.

Some identifying details would be nice. The
web page where it was downloaded from,

I DLed it decades ago' Don't remember where. Somewhere I found with Google
likely. As I rember, my sister suggested it as she was happy with it. I
think I was using Eudora then.

or at least
a picture of what it looks like, to try to confirm
what kind of flora or fauna is involved.

With web mail as the option, they can change the
source code (JS/HTML) on the server end, on a moments
notice, and we don't refer to that as "installing",
as you're just viewing whatever content they splattered
on the web page.

There was some talk of "bots" being added to GMail,
that could auto-answer incoming mails. Perhaps that's
the feature that is dragging down the web page you're looking
at ?

Could be. Not familiar with those bots.

If the tool has an "about:" entry, the info in there
might tell us the client type being used.

Don't see an 'About'. Only one I see when Gmail on the screen is for
Firefox.

Paul

"Web email" here means that you need to go to the Google web site and simply
use their own email web page located on their web site. It also means it is
accessible on any computer (that can get on the web). This is in stark
contrast to a POP3 email program like Outlook Express, which is "local"
(locally installed) on that computer, and uses its own dedicated software
program (e.g: Outlook or Outlook Express).