Me three. It was a PITA this morning.
I think it's their seruptitous work to morph gmail into their google+ social media system as I'm beginning to notice more and more unwanted "features" in gmail and having to wait for them to fully load before I can open up an email to read. Also noticed the first page of gmail uses 0.5Mb to 1Mb of data transfer just to load a single screen sized page of simple text.