I'm using gmail in IE and I get slowdown.

[oiprocs]

At the top of the page I see "Loading...", but there is new on-screen text as well that states:

"Gmail runs faster on Google Chrome. Click here to learn how"

I think Google might be purposely slowing down gmail on IE and Firefox in order to get people to transition to Chrome. Tons of people use gmail too, so I don't think is a conspiracy theory.

This is also not the first computer in which I've experienced slowdown, but it is the first in which I've seen that message.

Thoughts?

 

[DingDingDao]

Originally posted by: scorpious
At the top of the page I see "Loading...", but there is new on-screen text as well that states:

"Gmail runs faster on Google Chrome. Click here to learn how"

I think Google might be purposely slowing down gmail on IE and Firefox in order to get people to transition to Chrome. Tons of people use gmail too, so I don't think is a conspiracy theory.

This is also not the first computer in which I've experienced slowdown, but it is the first in which I've seen that message.

Thoughts?

Wat?

It's not a conspiracy if Google designs two of their products to work better together than with a competitor's product. It's called common sense.

See also: Apple.

EDIT: Warp. OP Below.

 

[Gibson486]

they started doing this when they came out with chrome

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: scorpious
At the top of the page I see "Loading...", but there is new on-screen text as well that states:

"Gmail runs faster on Google Chrome. Click here to learn how"

I think Google might be purposely slowing down gmail on IE and Firefox in order to get people to transition to Chrome. Tons of people use gmail too, so I don't think is a conspiracy theory.

This is also not the first computer in which I've experienced slowdown, but it is the first in which I've seen that message.

Thoughts?

Wat?

It's not a conspiracy if Google designs two of their products to work better together than with a competitor's product. It's called common sense.

See also: Apple.

EDIT: Warp. OP Below.

Well I'm referring more to designing their product to slowdown with a competitor's product. Intentional slowdown.

As in it was once fast, and now it's *magically* slower.

 

[DingDingDao]

Originally posted by: scorpious

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: scorpious
At the top of the page I see "Loading...", but there is new on-screen text as well that states:

"Gmail runs faster on Google Chrome. Click here to learn how"

I think Google might be purposely slowing down gmail on IE and Firefox in order to get people to transition to Chrome. Tons of people use gmail too, so I don't think is a conspiracy theory.

This is also not the first computer in which I've experienced slowdown, but it is the first in which I've seen that message.

Thoughts?

Wat?

It's not a conspiracy if Google designs two of their products to work better together than with a competitor's product. It's called common sense.

See also: Apple.

EDIT: Warp. OP Below.

Well I'm referring more to designing their product to slowdown with a competitor's product. Intentional slowdown.

As in it was once fast, and now it's *magically* slower.

That seems counterproductive.

"Let's make our product shittier so that our other product will get more users! Wait, that doesn't work, it only makes people use our first product less..."

EDIT: Warp again lol

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: scorpious
At the top of the page I see "Loading...", but there is new on-screen text as well that states:

"Gmail runs faster on Google Chrome. Click here to learn how"

I think Google might be purposely slowing down gmail on IE and Firefox in order to get people to transition to Chrome. Tons of people use gmail too, so I don't think is a conspiracy theory.

This is also not the first computer in which I've experienced slowdown, but it is the first in which I've seen that message.

Thoughts?

I use Chrome and see that "Loading" box for several minutes on end sometimes too.

Just because you've used more than one computer to check gmail from IE and Firefox doesn't mean Google is all up in yo grill with conspiracy bullshit. It means there's *gasp* server lag!

 

[frostedflakes]

No, the reason it's faster in Chrome is because GMail and many other web-based Google products are very Javascript intensive, and the JS engine in Chrome is light years ahead of those used in Firefox and IE. Opera on the other hand has a really good JS although not quite as fast as Chrome's. And the new Tracemonkey engine in Firefox 3.5 should make speeds more comparable to Chrome (but again, I believe it's still a bit slower than Chrome, V8 is just a really kickass JS engine).

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes
No, the reason it's faster in Chrome is because GMail and many other web-based Google products are very Javascript intensive, and the JS engine in Chrome is light years ahead of those used in Firefox and IE. Opera on the other hand has a really good JS although not quite as fast as Chrome's. And the new Tracemonkey engine in Firefox 3.5 should make speeds more comparable to Chrome (but again, I believe it's still a bit slower than Chrome, V8 is just a really kickass JS engine).

Okay, this makes sense.

+1 to you my friend