Look Ma! Gmail becomes much better!

  17 Apr 2007 by ReviewSaurus

gmail.jpgGina Trapani from Lifehacker has collected various Greasemonkey scripts and compiled them together to create one extension called Better Gmail. This Firefox extension, improves the functionality of Gmail and makes sure that you can do more with Gmail and that too without wasting much time.

This extension is capable of doing some amazing work and I’m glad that Adam Pash from Lifehacker took the pain of explaining its functionality. When this was released, I was in doubt that whether it’s safe to use Greasemoneky scripts as Gmail’s program policy is against any reformation or framing of any webpage related to Gmail service. So, I headed towards the best blog about Google and i.e. Google Blogoscoped and I was glad to find that, it is quite safe to use the Greasemonkey scripts, till the time, the Gmail service is not abused.

I found Better Gmail as a really great plugin, what about you ?


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6 Responses so far

  1. sindhu April 18, 2007 9:44 am

    i like better gmail, its a great idea to have a bunch of top grease monkey scripts as an addon, for people who dont know what the fuss about GM is, addons are easier way to have functionality.

    grease monkey has several adblocking scripts too. ;) love`em

  2. Rishi April 18, 2007 3:02 pm

    I don’t like using Grease Monkey scripts, using them spoils the REAL browsing touch. Better Gmail … I can say is good but it doesnot works in Google Apps which I feel is bad :( .

  3. Vyoma April 18, 2007 5:08 pm

    I have not tried it yet. Need to check it out. Thanks for the tip.

  4. reviewsaurus April 18, 2007 6:01 pm

    @ Sindhu : Indeed, Greasemonkey actually enhances the web in a cool way. But Believe me…I really don’t like those ad blocking scripts ;)

    @ Rishi : GreaseMonkey scripts are good my friend, think this way..that with the help of these greasemonkey scripts..developers are giving suggestion to the Gmail team that you can improve Gmail this way and later Gmail team can always incorporate these features later on.

    @ Vyoma : Try it and I’m sure you’ll love it :)

  5. Rishi April 19, 2007 3:52 am

    @Reviewsaurus : Hey how about giving a screencast on the features enchanced by this script ‘Better Gmail’ ??

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