Are you using any extension or add-on on your browser to keep track of the number of unread messages in Gmail? Just a day ago, I suggested that you replace such extension with Minimalist Gmail, a powerful Gmail customization extension for Chrome that features unread messages count on Gmail’s favicon. Today, there is a new [...]

(Chrome extension) Comparing to other major webmail, Gmail definitely has the cleanest interface, spotting only text advertisements, without any flashy banners. For some minimalist freaks however, that is not enough. Want to remove more clutters? Want more customizing power?

Gmail Sneak Peak is a newcomer to Gmail Labs. When it is enabled, you can view any mail’s content in your inbox by right-clicking, without actually opening the mail itself. A window overlay sort of a thing will appear, and an excerpt of your mail content will be displayed, like this: The window is not [...]

(Gmail+Firefox/Chrome) Do you receive emails from strangers very often? If yes, it would probably be a lovely to have this Firefox add-on/Chrome extension installed— Rapportive. This is what Rapportive do — kick out the sidebar advertisement from Gmail and replace it with information about the sender of the email you are reading. Here’s what it [...]

My Gmail Notifier Firefox add-on had stop working for several months already, and apparently the Offline Gmail feature from Gmail Labs is the culprit. Updating to the latest version of Gmail Notifier (0.6.3.11 at the time of writing) didn’t help at all, but fortunately this can be fixed by simply installing this: hosted2.xpi It works [...]

Gmail has been my primary email client for years already—for its simplicity, effectiveness and speed. With the new incoming feature in Gmail Labs, namely Offline Gmail, Google had successfully stopped me from bothering to look at any alternatives.