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Gmail power-up with GreaseMonkey

Oct 20, 2006
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Gmail is undoubtedly the best web-based email client out there today.
But since it has been releases on April 1st 2004, and upgraded on April 1st 2005, it has hardly received any new upgrades, not even the long anticipated message size column.

Well, thanks to Firefox, and a programmer named Mihai, we can all enjoy some new and useful Gmail power-ups.
This is made possible thanks to GreaseMonkey, a Firefox extension that allows changing a web page's behavior using user written scripts.

Mihai, who is also a Google programmer, uses this extension to write some interesting Gmail features that Google never made themselves:

Saved searches

http://persistent.info/archives/2005/03/01/gmail-searches

This alows to to save custom searches into the saved-searches panel, a.k.a. smart folders.

Also, check out lukebaker's update to this script.

Color Labels

Shortcuts & Color Labels
http://persistent.info/archives/2005/12/23/greasemonkey

Adds some new Gamil shortcuts such as: 'R' to mark as Read, 'T' to send to Trash, 'P' to mark as Read and Archive (stands for Purge).
You can easily edit the script and add your own customized shortcuts.

You can also color your labels to make important ones stand out.
Note that too many colors can make your inbox look overwhelming.