+2 on not liking the new Gmail. Fortunately, I have only one email there for a specific job but need to leave it on the web instead of downloading to my computer.

What is this new Gmail format? Mine hasn't changed recently.

The overhaul that occurred back in the April/May timeframe. Animated envelope on launch, folder list slides in from the left, Calendar/Keep/Tasks can be pinned to the right side of the window.

Oh. I fail to see a problem with it. I like how the Trash and Archive buttons show on each row when you mouse over. Though, I usually use the keyboard shortcuts so I don't use the buttons much.

Based on their track record, Google has the worst product/user interface improvement team in the business. Did they hire the crack "New Coke" team?

Don't like it as well. Too slow.

Way too slow. I wish they hadn't removed the option to revert to classic Gmail. The new version is awful.

Where exactly is this slowness people are complaining about? When you go to gmail.com, you wait a few seconds for it to load. It always did that. Then it behaves as always. What's slow?

I think people just want to complain about change.

It is probably the same speed of loading. But before you get the old URL (whichever site you were on) to stare at while it was loading. Now you get to stare at the animation of the Gmail while it loads. I wonder if they do this in preparation of putting in ads for you to watch while it loads. Instead of the Gmail envelope, it would be a picture of Starbucks coffee filling up... "Start your morning with a fresh cup of Pumpkin Spiced Starbucks Coffee. Click the Icon for $1 Coupon!"

Eleven seconds to load the new and improved [sic] gmail.

One thing I've noticed that's much slower is deleting an email. I have a specific gmail account I use for anything mailing-list related and sometimes there will be multiple emails in the in box that I know I can delete without reading. I click to select them, then on the trash button. And then I wait. It's probably only five seconds (sometimes it's longer) for an action that used to be immediate. Same with moving an email to a folder, it just takes longer than it used to.

I'm also having issues with gmail not logging me in. I click next after entering my password (which auto-populates on my laptop) and instead of loading the emails, it redirects back to the main log in page. It's happening frequently and is very annoying.

The "new" format really isn't much different than the old format IMO. Both work fine for me, but I do like the improvements in the "new" format.

Perhaps time for an upgrade. Using Firefox on last years Macbook pro it takes <1s.

These are probably badly behaved extensions on your browser or something. I just hit x # to delete an email and it's instant, same as cliciking the little popup trash can.

No login issues here either. Check your extensions. If that's not it, try clearing your cookies.

There is one feature that I regularly used in the previous version of Gmail which is missing from the new one.

In the old version, when I hovered over an email address, the pop-up box had a link to search for all the emails which I received from that address. I have yet to find that functionality in the new Gmail. Now, I have to copy the email address and paste it in the "Search Mail" box when looking for other emails which I received from that address.

You can check the checkbox for that email, click on the three vertical dots on the toolbar below the search field, and choose Filter messages like these. From that point you can either create a filter rule or just execute a simple search.