I used to love Yahoo email for one reason. Tabs. They don't exist anymore, so Yahoo email can die in a fire, but there was a time when everything you did in Yahoo would open a new tab.
You could have your main inbox in one tab, multiple search results in multiple tabs, several emails in different tabs, and so on. It was amazing. Im sure it was a lot of messy code and required a lot of data to be stored on the client, but come on. Storing heavy data on the client is the way technology is going anyway. When I am in Gmail and I do a search, it is a pain in the **** to switch between an email and the search results. If you open an email from a search result list, the only way to get back to the search results is to click a little back arrow that is easy to miss (im sure this depends on your gmail layout, but for mine it isn't especially convenient).
My Outlook account is a little better but still not great. The search results, emails, and menus are all in separate panels. It works, but if I go back to the inbox I lose my search results.
With old school yahoo, you could switch between these things simply by clicking on tabs. It was wonderful.
Of course, my yahoo account gets hacked like every week and they have gotten rid of the one feature I really liked, so I have abandoned them. I wish Gmail and Outlook could implement something similar (perhaps better?). Anyone miss tabs?
You could have your main inbox in one tab, multiple search results in multiple tabs, several emails in different tabs, and so on. It was amazing. Im sure it was a lot of messy code and required a lot of data to be stored on the client, but come on. Storing heavy data on the client is the way technology is going anyway. When I am in Gmail and I do a search, it is a pain in the **** to switch between an email and the search results. If you open an email from a search result list, the only way to get back to the search results is to click a little back arrow that is easy to miss (im sure this depends on your gmail layout, but for mine it isn't especially convenient).
My Outlook account is a little better but still not great. The search results, emails, and menus are all in separate panels. It works, but if I go back to the inbox I lose my search results.
With old school yahoo, you could switch between these things simply by clicking on tabs. It was wonderful.
Of course, my yahoo account gets hacked like every week and they have gotten rid of the one feature I really liked, so I have abandoned them. I wish Gmail and Outlook could implement something similar (perhaps better?). Anyone miss tabs?
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