Row Highlighter for Gmail™ and Inbox™

Highlights Gmail and Inbox rows on mouse over with nice and shiny colors.
What is Row Highlighter for Gmail™ and Inbox™?
Row Highlighter for Gmail™ and Inbox™ is a user-friendly tool that adds a burst of color to your Gmail and Inbox interfaces. The extension highlights email rows upon mouse-over, increasing visibility and organizational ease. It even extends support to the contacts list. Notably, from version 1.1, users can personalize the highlighting colors, offering a tailored email browsing experience. The extension owes its style format to stasnikiforov and its conception to Jhon from userstyles.

Extension stats

By: pb_ee1
Users: 10,000+
Rating: 4.47 (51)
Version: 1.4.0 (Last updated: 2017-07-05)
Creation date: 2017-07-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 54.78K

Other platforms

Row Highlighter for Gmail™ and Inbox™ (v1.4.1resigned1)
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Extension summary

Adds some colors to the letter rows in Gmail (including in multiple inboxes feature) and in Inbox. Also supports contacts list (https://contacts.google.com/).

Starting from version 1.1, you can customize the colors! :-)

Credits goes to stasnikiforov for the style format, and to Jhon for the idea (http://userstyles.org/styles/4725).

You might also be interested in this extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/johdeoloijidhejmalfkpchbihbiamph

User reviews

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Pros
  • User-friendly and helpful
  • Works well for highlighting emails
  • Many users love the extension
  • Effective for organizing emails
Cons
  • Sometimes stops working unexpectedly
  • Cannot change font color for highlights
  • Reset function for colors is not available
  • Only highlights mouse-over selection, not keyboard selections
Most mentioned
  • Awesome plugin!
  • Doesn't work
  • I absolutely love and couldn't live without it!
  • Functional but has some limitations
Recent reviews
by Users ICU of RRCH, 2024-06-07

Awesome, plugin!
by Tomasz Kaźmierczyk, 2022-11-04

Love it. (You need to reload GMail after you install this.)
by Peter Lyons Kehl, 2022-03-05
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Row Highlighter for Gmail™ and Inbox™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Row Highlighter for Gmail™ and Inbox™ has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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