gmail – Joho the Blog (original) (raw)
May 29, 2024
gMail losing autocomplete? Here’s a fix.
Every few weeks, gMail has stopped auto-completing addresses as I type them into the “To:” box. Rebooting Chrome does doesn’t help. Rebooting my MacBook Pro doesn’t help. Clearing my cache doesn’t help.
The obvious remedy of typing people’s addresses manually requires that I remember their addresses. That has only gotten less plausible as I’ve aged. Just ask our cat Smokey. No, wait, it’s Pearl. Hold on, I think it has something to do with being an outlaw. Smokey? No. Capone? We wouldn’t have named a cat “Dahmer”, would we? Oh, wait, it begins with an S! Sam Bankman-Fried? Smokey? Oh, I remember! We don’t have a cat.
I hope you enjoyed that dramatic pre-enactment of what’s in store for you.
In any case, the solution I have stumbled upon is to turn off Chrome extensions one by one, test gMail’s autocomplete, turn the extension back on, and then turn off the next one. In short, do the first thing any “how to” that actually knows anything would have suggested, to who which I reply: D’oh!
Oddly, a different extension has been the culprit each time. But, in truth, isn’t the real culprit all of us? Or possibly Google. Nah, it’s gotta be all of us.
BTW, has anyone seen Dahmer, that fluffy little furball!
Categories: whines Tagged with: bug • fix • gmail • how-to
Date: May 29th, 2024
June 17, 2015
Stylin’ Gmail
I use MailPlane to read my email (via gmail). Having some leisure time I decided to poke around its styling options.
MailPlane’s preferences let you override the default gmail styling with your own CSS. Here are three classes important to the listing of mail in your inbox:
| .xY | The entire row |
|---|---|
| .y2 | The message snippet |
| .zF | Who unread mail is from (other than yourself) |
For example:
.xY{ color:white; background-color: #045D9E; } .y2{ color:#8FD5FF; } .zF{ color: yellow; }
That will produce this:
Unfortunately, you never know when Google might decide to change these class names or restructure the entire damn thing. On the other hand, you can always just delete the CSS.
Categories: tech Tagged with: css • gmail • style • technical
Date: June 17th, 2015 dw