Auto-Hide Message Labels In Gmail
Firefox only: Gmail’s powerful filters and labels make it great for organizing, but when you have multiple labels assigned to a message the subject barely fits on the screen—unless you auto-hide them with a script.
The simple Hide Message Labels in Gmail script changes the labels to only display when you move your mouse over the message, letting you use labels for organisation without cluttering the display—especially useful for using Gmail on a smaller screen resolution display.
Hide Labels in Message Row is a free download, requires Firefox with the Greasemonkey or Stylish extension. If you are a fan of minimalism, you can use a user script to hide the footer and other clutter in Gmail along with the Better Gmail 2 extension to customise even more. Thanks, Hervé!
Gmail – Hide Labels in Message Row [userstyles.org]
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How to make it work only in inbox? Tried unsuccessfully to tweak both greasemonkey and stylish scripts.
CarlParis
woohoo :-)
-Hervé
ledruide
Wow. this looks ridiculously useful.
twins8791
i cant believe how long i been living without greasemonkey... shame on me.
I hope this gets integrated in Better Gmail ASAP.
Evan Wondrasek
Is anyone familiar with a script or style, or anything that allows label sorting? A search through userscripts.org + userstyles.org plus google turned up nothing by a sort-by-use script.I guess it's just an annoyance to see them in alpha order when I'd prefer manually sorting instead, but by no means a big deal.
Salute77
I thought this was cool... until I checked my Stylish scripts and saw that I was using one that hid tags, chat, AND footer ads:
[userstyles.org]
"Works in theory." I'm not really that concerned about "cluttering" my widescreen display with a bunch of especially useful labels. I can see its usefulness for small screens, but *only* there (especially when each hover spikes CPU utilization up to 100%). I hide the useless (to me) stuff... not the stuff that's actually useful.
GlennA
this is no issue on a 1920x1080 screen ;-)
masgo
hey, how do i get this running in Chrome?
holdemm
You can use the script by simply editing your 'userContent.css' file in the firefox profile folder. there is no need to install an extension.
The idea is cool, but I don't like how the subject lines keep flickering back and forth on the screen.
George Moga