{"id":4740,"date":"2008-03-12T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-10-gmail-extensions-and-plugins\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:33:26","slug":"top-10-gmail-extensions-and-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-10-gmail-extensions-and-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Gmail extensions and plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/03\/gmail-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Gmail logo\" align=\"right\" \/>A few days ago, I looked at some <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/tips-and-tools-to-deal-with-e-mail-stress\/\">tips<\/a> for helping avoid the increasing problem of e-mail stress &#8211; that horrible feeling when you feel utterly terrorised by your inbox. One e-mail client which I&#8217;ve always found reduces this problem to a minimum is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\">Gmail<\/a>. In fact, I think that Gmail is so good, I don&#8217;t know why everyone doesn&#8217;t use it. Anyway, as good as Gmail is, there are several applications and plugins which can help you get even more out of Google&#8217;s one and only e-mail client. These range from extensions that double-up your Gmail to serve as a hard drive to simply changing the look of your client with some new skins. Here&#8217;s a selection of ten top tools to get more out of this excellent web based e-mail client:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/toolbar.google.com\/gmail-helper\/notifier_windows.html\">Gmail Notifier<\/a> &#8211; Get notified of new mail without even opening your browser<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viksoe.dk\/code\/gmail.htm\">Gmail Shell Drive Extension<\/a> &#8211; Use your Gmail as extra hard drive space<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gmailassistant.sourceforge.net\/\">GmailAssistant<\/a> &#8211; Get notified of mail in multiple Gmail accounts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/4866\">Better Gmail<\/a> &#8211; A compilation of useful Gmail enhancements<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gianniamato.it\/grc\/\">Gmail Remote Command<\/a> &#8211; Control your PC remotely via your Gmail account<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklyon.org\/gmail\/download.htm\">Google Gmail Loader<\/a> &#8211; Import all your e-mail from other accounts into Gmail<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longfocus.com\/firefox\/gmanager\/\"><br \/>\nGmail Manager Extension<\/a> &#8211; Check your Gmail directly from Firefox<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gmailclipse-client.en.softonic.com\"><br \/>\nGmailClipseClient<\/a> &#8211; Manage multiple Gmail accounts under one client<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gmailskins.mozdev.org\/index.html\">Gmail Skins<\/a> &#8211; Give Gmail a whole new look with some great skins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/talk\/\">Google Talk<\/a> &#8211; Get notified of new Gmail while using Google&#8217;s instant messaging client<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I looked at some tips for helping avoid the increasing problem of e-mail stress &#8211; that horrible feeling when you feel utterly terrorised by your inbox. One e-mail client which I&#8217;ve always found reduces this problem to a minimum is Gmail. In fact, I think that Gmail is so good, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-10-gmail-extensions-and-plugins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 10 Gmail extensions and plugins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2339],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336286,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/336286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}