Gmail theme

September 4, 2008 by lyngaaskhan.

If you use gmail a lot as I do, I highly recommend checking out Google Redesigned from GlobexDesigns ( http://www.globexdesigns.com/gr/ ). It’s a very nice looking CSS wrapped into a Firefox extension. You are using Firefox 3, aren’t you?

Here’s what the basic screen looks like:

Calendar is also skinned. The extension checks for updates automatically.

I’ve used other extensions to enhance the look and use of gmail, such as the ‘Better Gmail’ extension found on LifeHacker, but none are as good looking as this one. This is an open source project, licensed under the GPL ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php ), so I suppose that you could download the source and make IE compatible style sheets. Unfortunately, IE does not have the robust and developer friendly support for extensions that Firefox enjoys. I know that it can be done, but unless it’s fairly simple, there’s little to be gained by creating it as I use either browser depending on the need. Firefox is my default browser.

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