Gmail's fake loading indicator

1 · · July 4, 2020, midnight
Whenever I visit Gmail, I see its loading indicator for a fraction of a second before it loads: Here’s what it looks like when I artifically make my network connection dial-up speed, preventing Gmail from loading within a reasonable time (it would take several minutes for Gmail to actually load, but you couldn’t tell that from the loading bar): Some investigation reveals that Gmail’s loading bar isn’t an actual loading bar!...