Compare Chrome extensions: Contrast Theme for Gmail™ vs gLinks

Stats Contrast Theme for Gmail™ Contrast Theme for Gmail™ gLinks gLinks
User count 3,000+ 20,000+
Average rating 3.43 3.10
Rating count 23 235
Last updated 2014-12-22 2023-04-25
Size 13.61K 9.10K
Version 0.1.6 0.0.0.2
Short description
Make default Gmail™ New Look (2012) more readable by tweaking contrast, margins and borders. read urls, links and more
Full summary

Tired to use the default Gmail New Look released in 2012? Wanted to use the original Gmail flavor? Too many white spaces and less borders are actually not only reducing density but also readability. It's time to use Contrast Theme for Gmail extension to improve your Gmail readability!

This Contrast Theme improves default Gmail New Look by tweaking color contrast, borders, shadows, margins and paddings. Basically this theme works with any Gmail default themes in settings so you can keep using your favorite background and colors.

Also this extension provides switches to enable, disable extra features includes:

  • Hide Ads.
  • Use monospace font.
  • Add a border to quotation like Mail.app does.

With this extension, you can create and open *.url, *.webloc and *.glink files directly from your Google Drive. Keep your files and links/bookmarks all together in your Google Drive.


Update on August 2014: solves issues caused by Google's Picker API update.