Comment on Discussion Thread: Thursday, 6 March 2025
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I’m an email in the browser kind of guy. I don’t know how people put up with a client. I like to open a link and have it go into the tab next to where I’m reading. I like being able to have my emails open in different tabs in multiple windows. Maybe it’s because I’m young, but it’s how I’ve always done it
Email in browser? Heresy!!!
I had to use the browser versions of Outlook and Teams some time ago, and hated every minute of it.
Give me multiple email windows any day. Probably because I tend to action emails and close windows quickly, whereas tabs can hang around for a long time.
Teams in the browser sucks because they don’t give you all the functionality of regular teams. But regular teams is still pretty bad. Browser outlook is much better now with Office 365, from an email nerd perspective it uses an updated render engine compared to Outlook Classic. New desktop Outlook is pretty much a container for the web version, so everything is the same aside from being able to pick your preferred keyboard shortcuts.
We have to use Teams as default at work. It sucks, but it is what it is. I can’t get used to using a browser based Outlook for some reason. My brain ain’t braining correctly when I deal with it.
Can’t explain why.
One thing that much help is pinning outlook to your browser and allow notifications. Then you can Ctrl+1 to outlook from any tab in the same browser window
@tombruzzo
I switch between Mac, Windows and Linux at work, so I use both the desktop Outlook versions and the browser one. All of them suck pretty hard, but weirdly the Mac Outlook is quite different to, and superior to the Windows one.
@MeanElevator
Seamonkey does this (sucessor to Ye Olde Netscape Communicator)
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 week ago
The only email I like in the browser is Gmail, personally, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have a client anyway 😂 I use the Gmail app as well on my phone.
If I’m at a job that uses outlook, I prefer that in the client - most call centre jobs require multiple programs open and I found that having the email in the browser meant I missed stuff or it makes a noise (super distracting when on the phones) 😂 in a client I can mute it but it still looks at the taskbar and see whether it has the orange dot.
I think it all depends on the work you do, and how you grew up :)
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
That is one case when it would be handy. Do people link to things in those other programs in emails? And does it do what teams does where it takes you from Email > browser > Teams so it creates a bunch of redundant tabs anyway?