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Wed, 29 Aug 2007

Better Gmail plugin

I read on Voidspace about Better Gmail and figured I'd give it a try. It fixes one of the things I dislike about Gmail: lack of fixed width font on messages. I've gotten used to or around the other things I'm not wildly excited about, but lack of fixed width font when viewing messages is such a pain in the ass. Bugzilla emails come in and they're all screwy, emails from my stock broker come in and they're all screwy, emails from other people that involve text-based tables... they're all screwy, too.

Anyhow, Better Gmail has a Fixed Font option and it's awesome. I don't understand why the Gmail folks haven't added a fixed width font option to Gmail yet.

[ category: /content | Permalink | 2 comments ]
Posted by Carl on Wed Aug 29 09:53:45 2007
That plugin is from Gina Trapani at LifeHacker. She has similarly useful plugins called Better GCal and Better GReader that enable skinning, customization, and other nice stuff in those services.

www.lifehacker.com


Posted by Leo Soto on Wed Aug 29 11:54:14 2007
There is a way to have fixed font without using any extension, just CSS customization:

http://blog.leosoto.com/2007/04/fixed-width-font-on-gmail.html


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