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Here's how I had been using the old Gmail UI or HTML view for several years now. Simply login to your Gmail account. You should see a URL similar to https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/... in your browser address bar, just simply change the mu to h and hit enter. You will be taken to the old UI or html view.

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I don't have "mu", only "u" and changing it to "h" only gives me the old html interface. I can do the same in the settings.

I had the option to switch back to "classic" a couple of days back, but now it's gone.

Changing mu to h works totally fine for me. You can even change from mu to x but I think x is for mobile only. Just to clear any confussion, I hope the classic interface you are talking about is same as the basic html view. You can switch between standard view and basic html view from the buttom of the page. There are links there. But here's a link from Google so try this: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui

Make sure you are logged in before clicking on the link above. Let me know if I can still help.

> I hope the classic interface you are talking about is same as the basic html view

No. There's are 3 interfaces: html, previous UI and new UI forced on users now. New UI apparently contains some features from Inbox product, and is much slower. You could opt out to use the old UI (dubbed Classic by Gmail) until yesterday. Now I can only choose between new UI and html.

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