Gmail Sender Icons

Gmail Sender Icons

Quickly identify the sender of email messages in Gmail without opening the message.

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What is Gmail Sender Icons?

Gmail Sender Icons is a Chrome extension that visually assists in identifying email senders in Gmail. It does this by displaying the sender's company domain and the organization's official logo (favicon) next to the email message. This allows quick and easy identification of the sender without needing to open the email. Featured on well-known sites like Product Hunt and LifeHacker, this tool respects user privacy by processing all data locally, and does not alter actual email labels.

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Stats
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Rating: 4.42 (128)
Version: 2.1 (Last updated: 2022-03-24)
Creation date: 2019-03-27
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • https://mail.google.com/
Size: 277.50K
Email: Click to see
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Summary

Gmail Sender Icons is a Google Chrome extension that makes it easy for you to quickly and visually identify email senders in Gmail. It shows the company domain name of the email sender and the official logo (favicon) of the sender's organization alongside the email message.

For instance, if you receive an email from larry@google.com, the Gmail extension will add a virtual label google.com to your email message and also a logo of the Google website next to the message so you can immediately identify the sender in the email list.

Gmail Sender Icons has been featured on Product Hunt, LifeHacker, The Next Web and host of popular websites.

The favicons and the sender's domain are visible across Gmail including search results. The sender's label is applied virtually and the actual labels of the email message are left unchanged.

The Gmail Chrome extension uses the Google S2 service for generating the website's favicon while the Gmail messages are parsed with the Inbox SDK framework. All processing is done locally in your browser and no Gmail data is ever shared or uploaded anywhere.

The add-on is open source and the code is available on Github.

User reviews
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Pros
  • Easy identification of emails
  • Helpful for visual processing of information
  • Increased efficiency in managing inbox
Cons
  • Occasional functional errors
  • High CPU and RAM consumption
  • Compatibility issues with old and new Gmail interfaces
Most mentioned
  • Visual aid to emails
  • System resource usage
  • Functional inconsistency
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Safety
Risk impact

Gmail Sender Icons may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Gmail Sender Icons has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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