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I use "Basic HTML" very often for Gmail and I want have this as default.
My internet research told my it should be possible.
To set the Basic HTML view as your default so that you don't need to select the link every time you sign in, click “Set Basic HTML as Default View” at the top of the Gmail account screen when you're using Basic HTML view.
I don't see a button “Set Basic HTML as Default View”
And this page sounds hopeful, but I was not able to to this. Is this still possible and how?
I don't get the banner either. Perhaps Google disabled this option, or it depends on your browser or account. I would advise to bookmark the dedicated link for Basic HTML: https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ - that will always take you to the basic version.
When I click on either the dedicated link for basic HTML
https://mail.google.com/mail/h/
or the link in your question
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1psomethindr/
I get the following screen.
I see "Set Basic HTML as Default View". When I do that, it remains in default view, although it continues to offer the switch to standard view if I want it, on each of my subsequent visits to Gmail.
