Dress up GMail with Skins – And Improve The Functionality using Better GMail

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Well, I’m pretty sure most of you are heavy GMail users. For me GMail is my primary mail service now, with my domain-based mail running on Google Apps. As good as a service GMail is I find certain things annoying – such as the the way it defaults to top posting instead of bottom posting! And of course the default interface is a bit bland. That’s where Better GMail comes in. Better GMail is a collection of Greasemonkey userscripts all rolled into 1 neat Firefox addon!

Some of the features Better GMail has include

Support for themes
Saved searches
Keyboard macros
HTML signatures
Bottom posting instead of top posting
Attachment icons indicating file types
Unread mail count in tabs

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Better Gmail comes in 2 versions, Better GMail and Better Gmail 2. Better Gmail is for those using the older version of Gmail, and Better GMail2 is for – you guessed it the newer version(you can distinguish between the 2 versions, the newer version will have a link for Older Version in the top right corner).

You can get Better Gmail from here, and better GMail 2 from here.

here’s a screenshot of my GMail after using Better Gmail

Comments ( 13 )

May 27, 2008Replyunitechy
anything for opera?
May 27, 2008ReplyShankar Ganesh
Did my tweet inspire you to write this post? :D Hehe, anyways I'm loving that Gmail Redesigned skin and it's great for a SHOW OFF to classmates! :D
May 27, 2008ReplySantosh
Gonna try this out right now! Thanks dude!!
May 27, 2008ReplyManan
This was actually found when members of thinkdigit were trying to figure out a way of over lapping a css on thinkdigit's stupid red theme. If you are on FIrefox you will need the Stylize plugin, If you are on Opera, the Greasemonkey script, If you are on IE, then you need to have IEPro, download the Greasemonkey script, rename it to ieuser. whatever to it and save it in the userscript folder of IEPro.
May 27, 2008ReplySantosh
Not compatible with FF3 :-L
May 27, 2008Replydevesh
Funny you wrote this - just a few hours back I was trying to look around for a new "skin" for Gmail - gotta love Gmail2 - especially the new "Redesigned" skin - kick ass!
May 27, 2008ReplyReeteshinator
I saw this addon quite a while ago, but... I am kinda jumpy aboot security, for some reason I started thinking this all all greasemonkey's conspiracy to take over the world by stealing everyones privacy :P So... plain 'ol gmail for me.
May 27, 2008ReplyGrace
looks pretty.. will surely try it out..
May 27, 2008ReplySathya
Wow so many responses, never had these many responses to any of my posts I think :D :P First, @Shankar: Yup I had taken a look at Better Gmail after your tweet and was simply blown away and had to write on this! Thanks! :D @Unitechy: Yup, you'll have to use GreaseMonkey userscripts. For this, In Opera, first define User JavaScripts directory, by clicking on Tools -> Preferences. Click on Advanced Tab, and Click on JavaScript Options. Now under User JavaScript Files field, enter a folder name. Now headover over to http://userstyles.org/styles/site/google.com , Select any of the styles you like and save it to the folder defined above. That's it! When the site loads, the JS will take over automatically. @Santosh Better Gmail 2 is compatible with FF3RC1, I'm using RC1 myself @Manan I see, thanks for the extra input! @Reetesh This isn't a UserScript, It's a Firefox addon so you don't have to be so paranoid. @Devesh & Grace, It looks pretty yeah!
May 27, 2008ReplyReeteshinator
yeah, but it could be a joint venture between FF and them :o :P
May 28, 2008ReplyRitesh
Awesome !!! I was so bored of the regular GMail look. Have already changed mine to the "Redesigned” skin. Looks really neat :)
June 1, 2008Replyunitechy
hey thanks for userstyle thing...my almost all sites are dressed up now :P
June 2, 2008ReplySathya
@unitechy welcome :)