Not about GMail, but does anyone else find Google's new blog templates to be annoying? Chrome and Firefox optimized away much of the 500msec or less it takes f

Not about GMail, but does anyone else find Google's new blog templates to be annoying? Chrome and Firefox optimized away much of the 500msec or less it takes for the page to render, and I don't want to have to spend that time watching the loading logo instead. Plus there are unavoidable animations for every page I try to access, but they're slow and make my netbook lag. I like being able to access the alternative views, but some of them seem clearly oriented towards photo blogs and turn into a pastiche of menus and grids, defeating the point of making the blog more usable for the reader (I have to try click on each one to see what it does?). /complain