Gmelius, pronounced 'Gmail'-'ius' where melius means
better in Latin, is a browser extension available for Google Chrome, Mozilla
Firefox and Opera that customizes the look and feel of Gmail to the users’
satisfaction. Gmelius gives you the possibility to determine which interface
elements you wish to display in your inbox, as well as how you want to use
them. Amongst the extension's most popular features are the options to restore
the old compose window, to remove all ads, to propose a clean Gmail print style
(e.g., no Gmail logo), and to make your Gmail inbox less cluttered and more
readable. For a complete list of features, please see below.
Gmelius has been founded in 2012 and is maintained since
its creation by Florian Bersier, a PhD candidate at the Oxford Internet
Institute, University of Oxford.
Main Features
Experience Gmail
without ads
Focus only on your emails and wipe out the noise added to
your inbox by Gmail ads. Gmelius gives you the possibility (i.e. option) to
remove all the ads present in Gmail (top, right and bottom). To note that Gmelius
does not deactivate the automatic Gmail filtering and scanning system which
allows Google to parse for keywords in your emails and then match and serve
targeted ads when you browse the Web.
Make Gmail header
visible on-demand
Make the Gmail
header, that is the logo and search block, auto-expandable on demand and
prioritize so the content of your inbox. If you enable this feature, Gmelius
will add a "Search" button at the top-left of your inbox that will
display/hide the header and auto-focus the search input. This feature includes
a keyboard shortcut.
Restore the old
compose window
Among the masses who have experienced a sense of loss
after Gmail introduced its new compose window? Don't worry, we have your back!
Gmelius brings back the compose window you've come to know and love.
Print cleaner
emails
Want your printed
emails to look more professional or display more content on a single page?
Gmelius removes the Gmail logo and modifies Gmail's global print stylesheet.
Remove the
"People Widget"
You don't use the so-called "People widget" or
contact box appearing at the right of your emails? Remove it from Gmail and
enjoy a larger space to read and browse your messages. You will need to disable
the ads first for this feature to work properly.
Customize Gmail
navigation icons
The native Gmail
navigation icons can look a bit confusing. While you have the possibility to
choose either buttons with icons or buttons with text, Gmelius gives you the
option to have buttons with icons and text. Moreover, you can also colorize the
navigation icons to make them even more intuitive.
Add a subtle row
highlight
Make the navigation through your Gmail inbox more
eye-pleasing by adding a subtle row highlight when the mouse goes over a
message. Gmelius features a row highlight whose color is customizable in order
to suit best your theme. This feature is also compatible with the Preview Pane
Gmail lab.
Homogenize the
appearance of your incoming emails
Not a big fan of
those emails sent with an exotic font (e.g. Comic) and catchy colors? Enable
this feature and Gmelius will homogenize the look and feel of your incoming
emails based on the default settings of your Gmail theme.
Add attachment
Icons
In your Gmail inbox, attachments are indicated by a paperclip.
What if different icons were shown depending on the type of file attached to
your emails? Gmelius exactly does this by offering type dependent attachment
icons, either in color or in black and white (Chrome only). More than 40 types
of files are currently supported from the standard .doc|.pdf|.xls to the less
frequent .php|.svg|.ogg.
Disable
"Consider including"
Some Gmail users
were not happy with the activation by default of the "consider
including" feature when composing their emails. If you one of them, just
disable it with Gmelius.
Make the Google
logo clickable
Remember the days when one simple click on the Gmail logo
in the header was magically refreshing and sending you back to your inbox.
Gmelius revives this nice feature.
Auto-Scroll to the
top of your inbox à la Google+
Hand cramps
scrolling continuously up and down in your Gmail inbox? Relax and enjoy a
smooth auto-scroll to top functionality by simply clicking on the top lightgrey
header, like in Google+.
Move emails labels
from the left to the right of your inbox
In Gmail, labels are placed at the very left of emails
subjects. Gmelius gives you the possibility to move labels from the left to the
right of your inbox, making then easier to read the subject of your emails at
first glance.
Move attachment
icons from the right to the left of your inbox
In Gmail,
attachment icons are placed at the very right of emails subjects. With Gmelius,
you can move those icons from the right to the left of your inbox, making then
easier to see the type of attachment an email has.
Automatic
De-obfuscation of email addresses
At Gmelius, we want to make Gmail cleaner, better but
also smarter. That's why, Gmelius de-obfuscates automatically any email addresses
you copy and paste from a website, making so your life a bit easier. Currently
available for Gmelius Chrome and Gmelius Firefox.
Regain some space
in your inbox
Gmail can look a bit cluttered. Gmelius gives you the
possibility to regain some space and to clean your inbox by removing diverse
elements such as chat statuses, chat, Google+ activity, footer, etc.
Privacy
To be clear and to the point, Gmelius will never access,
read, store, alter or transmit your personal data. If you are a Chrome user,
the permission warnings come from the fact that this extension modifies the
style and user interface of Gmail within your browser and so needs to know
whether Gmail is open in one or several of your tabs to apply those changes to
Gmail's subdomain (mail.google.com).
Developers’ website: http://gmelius.com/
Chrome installation page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gmelius/dheionainndbbpoacpnopgmnihkcmnkl
Firefox installation page: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gmail-ad-remover/
Opera installation page: https://addons.opera.com/extensions/details/gmelius-no-ads-and-better-ui-for-gmail/
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