Gmail Sender Icons - Quick Sender Identification Gmail Extension
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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 [email protected], 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.
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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.
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- Very useful for quickly identifying emails and senders
- Free to use
- Helps with visual processing of information
- Great for skimming inbox for important items
- Effective at catching phishing attempts
- High CPU and RAM usage, particularly on low-end computers
- Some users report that it doesn't work at all
- Lack of customization options for icon sizes and label colors
- Feedback on layout issues with non-default designs
- Excellent or very useful extension
- Requests for better customization options
- Concerns about performance and resource utilization
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Gmail Sender Icons requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
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Gmail Sender Icons has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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