Re: reaching gmail in basic html?

steffen,
That page would perhaps appear differently for you, simply because you are 
in the  eu.
Presently  at shellworld, some of  the browsers show a hacked looking 
edition of  Google's homepages as well.



On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:

> Tim Chase wrote in <[email protected]>:
> |On 2019-11-08 19:08, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> |> Karen Lewellen wrote in
> |> <[email protected]\ world.net>:
> |>|Alejandro,
> |>|I would appreciate a step by step, including where on the page
> |> the option |for   first choosing then saving basic html as  an
> |> option is located. |My test drive did not work last night, but I
> ...
> |> As far as i see the option is gone.
> |> The only chance you have is to be very quick at the login screen,
> |> right after you have entered the password, while it loads, there
> |> is the necessary link at the bottom of the page.  (I.e., first
> |> screen to enter the name, second screen to enter the password,
> |> then the third can shortly be seen -- maybe tell your helper to
> |> very quickly hit the stop-load button, and i hope your browser
> |> does that, then, instead of continuing the asynchronous load.)
> |>
> |> Funnily the basic HTML always offers the possibility to switch to
> |> the other one.  Also funnily, only the rich version allows marking
> |> all messages on the screen, so as to move them to trash.  (I just
> |> cleared my GMail history.)
> ...
>
> |At least according to Google's support page
> |
> |https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en
> |
> |you should be able to go to this link
> |
> |https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
> |
> |to force the HTML/low-bandwidth mode (hopefully a little easier than
> |trying to intercept the refresh).  I'm not sure if you have to use
> |the JS-only login path or if there's a non-JavaScript HTML-only login
> |option though.
>
> If i follow that link in logged-out state i come to a wonderful
> page that looks as if Apple had designed it.  (Note i use two
> different accounts for web browsing, one throw-away thing with
> a user who has no rights at all, unfortunately i still not made it
> to put this account into a lxc container, or even a VM, even
> though accelerated graphics now work even inside those it seems!
> And another one which knows user credentials, for example for the
> GMail account(s).  Since i log into the latter via ssh, and have
> to unlock an encrypted volume in order to get firefox --
> unfortunately i do need Javascript for these, ISP, VM hoster,
> GMail, whatever, sigh -- up with access to its data, i have to
> cross some hurdles of pain.  I tried the link with the
> unpriviledged user.)
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
>
>

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