I just discovered the nifty new feature by mistake. If you right click on an email in your Gmail inbox, a windowed preview of the email appears. There are also options to Close, Archive, Leave Unread, or Trash the message- without opening it. This is so nifty… and fast. How do the clever engineers at Google come up with these ideas?
Posted by Ross
Technorati Tags: Guest Blogger, Helpful, Gmail, Google, Preview, Tool
count wrote,
I wonder if you delete it after that form of previewing it shows up as a read email from the person that sent it. I know alot of spammers check to see if you read their email or not so as to send you more spam.
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Christina wrote,
isn’t it kind of hilariously pathetic that things like that can just completely make your day haha? I love it!
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 5:15 am
rosschrystall wrote,
You are so right! Pathetic. But still cool.
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 5:22 am
Gyulus wrote,
This is a Firefox extension, not the feature of Gmail itself.
http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/lifehacker-code-better-gmail-firefox-extension-251923.php
http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/Better-Gmail-Firefox-extension/1725409
Gy
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 9:28 am
RGS wrote,
Count … I think as long as you don’t load any images spammers won’t see if you opened the mail or not… Am I right or wrong?
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 9:57 am
DJJ wrote,
Any idea how this works in Macs?
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
i-eclectica.org » Blog Archive » Right-click preview in gmail wrote,
[...] For example, it never occurred to me to right-click on a mail – until I just found a post on Random Good Stuff. Right-clicking opens a preview window of the particular mail plus offers options to Close, [...]
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Me wrote,
I just tried both IE7 and Firefox, it didn’t do it for me, so it must be that plugin.
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
dice1976 wrote,
It’s a greasemonkey script that lifehacker.com has built into a great (better gmail) extension.
Link | May 4th, 2007 at 9:53 pm