Pros and Cons of Gmail's New Compose

Pros:-
1. Multiple Drafts at Once
Multiple Drafts can sit right next to each other on on your Gmail screen, or you can choose to pop them out for easier resizing.

2. Minimize Drafts
Users can now minimize drafts to the bottom or their Gmail windows

3. Background Activities Can Continue Uninterrupted
Compose won't interrupt the draft you're working on. You can also check and respond to more pressing emails while keeping your original draft intact.

4. More Streamlined email interface.

5. Switching Between the Two Interfaces Is Easy
you can easily return to the old interface by clicking on the small arrow in the right corner of the emails and select "switch back to old compose.

Cons:-
1. CC and BCC fields are much harder to access.

2. Smaller Tool Suite
You'll find that it takes a little longer to access the tools you need.

3. New Compose mails cover the entire right-hand chat column.

4. Less room to write
New compose provide small window to write mails

Opening Gmail in basic HTML view

have been stuck on a low bandwidth internet connection and your Gmail won't just open. It just loads and shows you a blank page. This happens when you are accessing gmail from a low bandwidth connection and/or a crappy PC. Gmail just shows loading for second time and man it is stuck. The remedy at that moment is to switch to the basic HTML view and check your mail. But what if it doesn't show you "Switch to basic HTML view" option after loading!!!

So here's the remedy. Sign into gmail and let it load. If it fully loads well and good but if it takes time or gets stuck just paste the following code into the address bar

    http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html&zy=d

and the Gmail opens in basic html view. Some features like chat may be disabled but You'll have to suffice with that.