Get Back the Old Gmail Interface Permanently!

In case you are annoyed by the new Gmail compose, read here how to revert to the old Gmail Compose feature.

You might have been wondering around making Gmail Old look permanent. If so, this post will tell you how to do that in no time!

In a previous article, I covered how to switch back to Old Gmail interface temporarily. But as of now, Google has started freezing the new look (which is highly criticized), you basically have no other choice than reading your mails on this new interface. But I have some ways which can help you to get back the glorious old look of Gmail permanently!

Switch back to Gmail Old Inteface permanently

The first one is the recommended way to get back to old Gmail. The method I’m going to share here is for the users who have a browser support of Stylish (Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, in general). Stylish is a browser extension which lets you pick custom skins (UserStyles) for your favorite websites.

I have written a UserStyle which will let you see your Gmail in it’s previous look. Below mentioned is the step-by-step method to do so:

  1. Install Stylish extension on your Web Browser. (install links: Stylish for Chrome and Firefox).
    You should also search web to get Stylish for your Safari browser.
  2. After installing stylish on your browser, you’re required to do only a one-click install of my UserStyle The Return of Old Gmail.

    how to make old gmail permanent
  3. Now, go to your Gmail account. What are you seeing? There must be the return of Old Gmail, you are back to your favorite Gmail old Interface. Am I right?

Below screenshot explains how your Gmail look before and after installing the UserStyle:

gmail older version permanent

The Return of Old Gmail UserStyle features

The UserStyle does the following thing for you:

  • Changes new Gmail styles to the older ones (not all)
  • Hides the annoying “About the new look” link
  • Reverts back the Top Navigation to the classic one (in Gmail only)
  • Implements Classic Gray-Blue Gmail theme
  • Makes Gmail of Elastic height instead of fixed height
  • Removes the Toggle between Chat and Invite block (I’m working to show both one after the other, only one block will be showed which you’ve toggled on the new look)

This UserStyle performs best on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. However, some default styles are unchangeable on Google Chrome which strictly implements some inbuilt parameters for Gmail.

Please consider rating my userstyle after trying it by visiting this link: Rate The Return of Old Gmail

The Return of Old Gmail version 3.2 highlights

Just fixed the scrolling problem with Gmail in the version 3.2.2, update now »

In version 3.2, I’ve fixed the limited mail list scrolling, made the top navigation more robust, styled the mail list box from scratch and done a couple of more fixes for Chrome. So, install The return of Old Gmail 3.2 and tell me how is it. I’m looking for more suggestions to make this userstyle more better. Hope, you liked the post, do share with your friends annoyed by new Gmail. If you’re having problems with the UserStyle or have a suggestion to improve it, drop in a comment, I’ll try to sort them out.

I found a bookmarklet on web which was helping me to get the Revert button in the new Gmail. But as of now, it’ not working at all, so I’ve removed the bookmarklet link from here.

Another way to get rid of new Gmail look is to switch to HTML view in Gmail. Just open log into your Gmail and click this link (https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html) to switch to HTML mode in Gmail.

I hope you have utilized this post to get your beloved old Gmail back to you. Also see how to Revert to old Facebook from Timeline.

Discussion • 123 Comments so far
  1. mary f augustine

    I absolutely hate the new version,I am a novice at this and I cant find the site to switch back to the old version Please HELP!!!!!

  2. Rahul Arora

    @Mary
    Hi! If you are finding this method difficult to implement, check this post also: http://techably.com/revert-gmail-older-version/3444/
    It may work for you to get Gmail old glory back.

    • Tulika

      thank you so much rahul, i did as advised by u and found my old gmail version. u r a darling – thank you thank you thank you so much

    • Deejay

      This link is no longer working – it’s in code.

    • Shagul

      I love your interface , I got it Thanks Rahul
      By Shagul

    • david

      can you please help me get my old gmail back i did have once a old html link to revert me back but since ive got a new computer i’ve lost it all i cant stand the new look of gmail i really need your help

      • Rahul Arora

        Hey David! Use this link: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html to switch back to the basic HTML view of Gmail.

  3. Cindy

    Many thanks Rahul,

    Indeed, I hate the new gmail version. I think they are many people that hate the new version. I don’t understand why google doesn’t offer people to keep old version.

    Regards.

    • Tulika

      i hate it too

  4. Anatolie

    Thank you fro this wonderful article. It really helped me because I don’t like the new Gmail look either.
    Google should make the switch to the new look OPTIONAL and pay attention to its users’ interest.

    • Rahul Arora

      Welcome Anatolie. Ya, they should completely leave the layouts choice on the user, it would be great if they do so.

  5. Mike

    I was about to move back to the dreaded Yahoo, if I had failed to resolve this one. That is how much I hated the new look. Thank you for your efforts!

    • Rahul Arora

      Welcome Mike :)

  6. Martha Smith

    I got so annoyed with everyone trying to look like a MAC, that I just installed Thunderbird so I can download email via POP.

    Google really shouldn’t want to alientate users to do this; since of course their ad dollars count on us using the web version.

    Design for the sake of it, is just plain dumb. Just ask Windows Vista how that turned out.

    PS, I even use Classic Shell for ugly MAC-esque Win7!

    • The C Man

      Hi Martha,
      It’s possible to put a portable version of Firefox on a USB stick which gets around what they won’t allow you to do.

    • Danny

      Design for the sake of design is stupid, I agree! Listen to your customers Google ya freakin momos

  7. tania

    I use my gmail at home with my work laptop, they will not upgrade to Chrome. I need administrative rights to download anything and they don’t allow it. I wouldn’t mind it otherwise. It looks distorted without it. Any ideas?

    • Charnie

      I’ve got a similar issue. Since IE is the standard in my workplace, do you have a workaround to the Stylish solution?

      • Fishie

        When Gmail is loading to your inbox with the progress bar screen, just click the link in the bottom right corner that says “Load Basic HTML” this will take you to an much simplified version on Gmail, even more basic than the old look, but at least it works properly and isn’t buggy like the new look. There should be an option at the top of your inbox to make “Basic HTML” your default so that you don’t have to click on the link during loading every time, since it’s easy to forget.

  8. maxxfi

    Thank you for this amazing tweak, the new gmail interface is so unwatchable that I was already started to wonder if I should just access gmail via IMAP/POP and use a local MUA on my desktop.

    I liked the old blueish background in gmail so I changed the background in .y0 class from #EFEFEF to #EDF0F9

  9. Tarqiui Folgate Norton

    Logged into gmail today and, wonder of wonders, the OLD version loaded with a button at the bottom to change to the new version. Does this mean It’s back for good?

  10. John Cunningham

    Any chance of doingan Opera version of this?? I switched to Opera after going berserk with the constant crashing of
    Firefox.

  11. Rattakin

    Does anyone know what prompted this change from Google? Were users complaining that the look was dated, or did they attempt to solve a problem that didn’t exist?

    Seriously, were they getting e-mails stating, “Gosh, I’d love to use gmail, but it has looked the same way for years and I need to switch to something else.”

    • JK

      Rattakin

      Good question. My experience with Google is that they spend a lot of time making marginally product changes which do little to improve the user experience. You can see this with Google Docs where they have spent years tinkering at the margins with a crippled word processing program without making it much better than it was 3 years ago.

  12. AZ

    Why haven’t you done one for Opera?

  13. SK

    Hey Rahul! How does it feel to be more resourceful and sensible than an entire multinational company? You rock!!

  14. GM

    What I am really not getting is WHY on earth Google forcing the new interface on its users? Can somebody explain to me what the benefit is (or seems to be) for the Googleplex managers? I can understand that, after giving birth to this new baby, they may sincerely believe that it is the prettiest and smartest thing ever. But still, why alienate and piss off lots and lots of people by FORCING this new interface on them?

    • Danny

      Note to Google product engineers: It’s NOT better. It’s clunky, confusing, inefficient, buggy and there was NO REASON to change anything in the first place!

  15. HAROLD ANDERSON

    I SUBSCRIBED TO THE NEW SHAW 2 E-MAIL SYSTEM AND ALTHOUGH I FIND IT QUITE SATISFACTORY, THERE IS ONE AREA THAT I FIND REALLY ANNOYING.” THE VIEWING AREA OF THE E-MAIL IS FAR TOO SMALL TO CONTAIN THE ENTIRE MESSAGE. MY QUESTION ” HOW DO I ENLARGE THIS SMALL AREA”???
    THANKS ANDY

  16. stidmama

    This is better! It still isn’t the way I had it, but it’s closer to what I need. I have some visual impairment and had tweaked the old gmail “just so” and can’t do that with the forced-on-me version. So, thank you for your effort!

    • Danny

      Yes thank you for your efforts here. The style works well, but it’s just not the same. The look is closer to the old version which helps, but a lot of the button functionality is still gone in the style update. I wonder if we can get the text buttons back instead of these stupid icons?

      • TL

        You can get the text back instead of the icons on the General tab of the Settings under “button labels”. Unfortunately, what it won’t do is restore all the buttons that were previously always visible. Gmail will still determine for you when you should see the “label” or “move” button and when you shouldn’t.

        • Mike

          Add

          .G-Ni
          {
          display:inline !important;
          }

          to stylish css to prevent the show/hide of buttons

  17. Carl Saglimben

    I totally dilike your new Gmail foremat …so much so…if you insist …I will drop Gmail for good

  18. MicahaelR

    Tell Google to shove this new look where it best fits!! And Not on my computer thanks!!!

  19. TJ

    well, that all well and good, but the point of web email is that you access it from multiple places, so if the solution to retain old Gmail interface is something installed on your computer — assuming you have one — it isn’t so helpful.

    • Frost

      Exactly TJ!
      The problem is it will work at home, but won’t on others computers like work or public computer, where you can’t make this kind of change.
      Also, it’s not that good to use an portable browser on an USB stick. It’s much more time consuming….

      BTW tks for the try Rahul!

  20. A. Cummings

    Hey man, I love you, thanks for fixing my gmail.

  21. charlie

    I lost my old look :( now im stuck with the new one. I don’t mind most of it, but I can’t stand the way messages are laid out. Why use profile pictures! no one has that shit set, and not everyone uses gmail! It lost the really intuitive colour system where each contact had a different colour in the conversation for this PIECE OF SHIT. The UI designer should be shot.
    From a simple clutter free view to a bulky, wasted space view which makes it hard to find who said what in long threads with lots of people.

    • Danny

      Agreed! I’ve always been a fan of Google (and a paying customer on many of their products, including Gmail for business enterprise….). But this crap gmail change has me really angry

  22. charlie

    I also was going to say, in the old look, if you minimise the chat view and expand it again, it fixes the size.

  23. vaidhegi

    Hi Rahul i can’t access the Post techably.com/2011/11/revert-gmail-older-version/

    • Rahul Arora

      Hi Vaidhegi!

      The post is available here: http://techably.com/revert-gmail-older-version/3444/

      Cheers!

  24. Blasted Bil

    All it does for me is change a few of colors to kind of look how the old gmail looks, but it still has the stupid thing where all the sections are their own mini page and the advance search button is still missing. is there any way to fix those too?

    • Rahul Arora

      No. All I can arrange are the styles / appearances only to revert to old Gmail. The advance Search button is removed by Google, if I add one through my scripts, it will not function like the older button since it has been removed completely by Google. BTW I updated the script, you should check it now, I’ve made some good changes this time.

  25. With thanks

    One thing, can’t see a search bar to search gmail?

    • Rahul Arora

      Hi!

      Have updated the script a few minutes ago, please update it, it will also fix the Search bar disappearance.

      Cheers!

  26. Michael

    Thank you! Best script on Stylish. Maybe you could “offer” some different Color Schemes? (I don´t like the blue one too much and I am too stupid to change the script ;-)
    But apart from this: PERFECT! Thanks again! Greetings from Germany!

  27. Ariel

    Hey, I installed Stylish for Safari and when I go to download your style, the page gives me an option to download for Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE but not Safari. Will this change soon?

  28. laksh

    rahi,

    links is showing some scrambeled messages,,,please give correct link

  29. PeteR

    God sent! Thank you Rahul, at least someone cares… I couldn’t get things done while using new look. Thanks again!

  30. tinypliny

    Thank you a million times over for your efforts. I was locked into the new look today and it completely disconcerted me. I have installed your extension/userstyle and it works very well. I would like to suggest a few more CSS changes that I made with stylebot. It adds on to your changes and removes the dark blue as well. Here are my changes, if you’d like to try them out or consolidate them into your userstyle.

    /*—————-begin additional CSS ———*/

    div.nH.Wg {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    }

    div.aeF {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    border-style: none;
    }

    div.aeH {
    border-style: none;
    }

    div.nH.nn {
    margin-top: -20px;
    }

    div.qd {
    background-color: #ffffff;
    }

    div.aim.ain {
    background-color: #e6f1f7;
    }

    div.akh.J-J5-Ji.J-JN-I.J-JN-I-JW {
    background-color: #e6f1f7;
    }
    /*—————-end additional CSS ———*/

  31. TJ

    unless somebody makes a Google Lab for Gmail’s old, classic look, my suggestion is to dump Google or make Basic HTML the default view (click the view as basic HTML link in the bottom right as your email loads, then select “make default view” from the links at the top of the page).

    • Jackie

      This is exactly how I did it – the basic HTML was far superior to the new look. I will try the script noted above, but the HTML verison is at least an option. I couldn’t use the new look ..don’t ask me why but my eyes wouldn’t focus for some reason…

  32. Danny

    Listen to social media and the blogs, Google, just in the two days since you made these “improvements” mandatory, there are already millions of people out there very frustrated you’re trying to fix something that wasn’t broken.

  33. BlkAngl Leah Bradshaw-Koo

    Thank You Soo Much, Rahul! This Was Such An Irritating And Exhausting Experience For Me To Deal With The New Look Of Gmail. For I’ve Been Trying To Get Mozilla Thunderbird, But Have Been Experiencing Issues Doing So On My Windows 7. Positive And Necessary Changes I Appreciate; Even When Its Tough. But Fixing Whats Not Even Broken Is Straight Stupidity And A Waste Of Valuable Time And Money. Peace Rahul! ^_^

  34. Anne-Marie Firmin

    Hi Rahul, Firstly, you are amazing! A celeb in the eyes of hundred of upset gmail users. Secondly, is it an option to make the text box blue-grey as before rather than plain grey? As it is much easier on the eyes and I can still cross between the old and new and can notice quite a big colour difference on the style version. Also – as you’re an expert – any idea why the New gmail UI hurts people’s eyes (my own included despite being young with fine eyesight)? Is it to do with contrast/flicker rates or something?

  35. Danny

    Hi Rahul, I just realized you are the author of this post. You’re gonna be getting a ton of traffic in the coming days man because everywhere I search for options on Google for how to get the old look and feel of Gmail back I find one of your posts. Hopefully you’ve got a great plan to monetize some of this activity! I’ll be honest, I’d happily pay money for someone to take each of my 6 Gmail accounts and fix them like they were this past Wednesday. I’ve searched the web hih and low and can’t find ANYTHING that fixes all problems. I installed the Stylish and it’s helpful but there’s still the icons, color/contrast issues, and sizing of message that the new Gmail mandatory “upgrade” caused as problems– without one noticeable benefit I might add. I just want what I had before, man I hate complaining about something I pay $100/year for (Google Apps) but they’ve totally ruined my week. I can’t find ANYTHING or operate out of these email inboxes

  36. Alex

    Hi there,
    I hate the new look, also the option of “revert to the old look” no more available.
    I hope that google will make a “vote” option for gmail users to see how they failed with the “new look” thing. Also thx for this Rahul, will try this stylish add on at home.

  37. Jose

    This does not work any longer. Google has ruined email forever.

  38. Pedro

    Thank you! Greetings from Portugal!

  39. Nicole

    This is great… but I liked the Phantasea Renewal theme in the “old” set of themes (it seems like it was the only one that didn’t make it over to the “new” look). Don’t suppose you know of anyone who has designed a userstyle for that, do you? Very frustrating (and also interesting how attached we get to the look and feel of a tool).

  40. Sarah

    HATE the new look. Conversation view is a disaster. Stylish skin reverts the inbox view to something close to normal but the conversation view is still horrible…why why why can’t we have the conversations shown the way they used to? With the emails from different people in different colors, NO pictures shown, and NONE of that annoying thing where newer messages are pushed further and further to the right? ARGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  41. tzvi

    it works, you ar the best.

  42. AABC

    Gmail should hang its head in shame for not listening to its USERS. How can you decide for your users the look that they want to have..
    BTW,the above is working well. I wd request the maker of this add-on to work on chat window so that it comes as it was comiong in the old-classic gmail look.

  43. TJ

    okay, so how do i stop getting emails for follow-up comments?

  44. Spleeny Dotson

    Thankyou sooooooooo much! The setup is still pretty awful but the aesthetic changes at least make me feel a bit less phobic about using my e-mail now. And thankyou too to the hoards of commenters above for making me feel more sane and less alone about how paralysingly unbearable I found the new look.

  45. zee

    It didn’t work for me. now I have some sort of hybrid that’s worse. :-( Am very sad. Really looking at going back to yahoo.

  46. Markoff

    it’s useless for people using many different (random) computers, I am working and living in cloud, not in one place stucked t one computer so if there is not online solution with some hack in address URL I am saying bye bye to Google and going to give a try to Zoho, Hotmail and Yahoo

  47. scott

    Thanks for this Rahul,you have done something that google themselves should have looked into from day one!
    Your script does make gmail look so much better than the new and so called ‘improved’ gmail(lol yeah right),but the functionality of googlemail has gone now.

    I wish they had someone like you on the google dev team! Thank you again Rahul for taking the time and effort to do this for us mere numbers on this gmail fiasco.

  48. Jackie

    I read about ZOHO email here..thanks! I switched to it and it brought all of my archived gmail a/cs over, and my contacts. The display is easily read..like gmail used to be. So glad I found this site!!

  49. Rachael

    It’s not working but I’m DESPERATE! The gear option doesnt exist anymore. Why? Do I need to reboot Chrome again? Tell me what I’m doing wrong Rahul? Please? I installed Stylish. I installed your program with the one click. I logged off then on. What now?!

  50. Andrei

    Thanks! I can only join the choir of annoyed people and thank you for the effort.

    Now, I have a question. You mentioned that you left the chat sidebar as it is; it creates a problem for me as I have many friends there and I can’t see them because of the small size of the sidebar. If you could show how to custom the height (or cancel the scrolling completely), it’d be very helpful. I realize this is not something that everybody needs, but I do.

    Thanks again!

  51. The C Man

    Try Settings – Labs – Right Side Chat. Makes a third column but it is worthwhile

  52. Aero guy

    Thanks for the addon, I really hate the GMail new look. They should have made it optional. Can you take out the black color on the gmail chat’s title to the old way too?

  53. jrobie

    Thanks for this, it makes gmail usable again. Just sad that my custom theme went away with their “update.” Hate that I have to keep installing third party fixes to get Google back to they way it was before they broke it.

  54. xtra

    this hasnt worked for chrome, those that dont like the new rahul version just need to click ‘disable’ on the pop up that opens when you click on the new ‘s’ logo for the app in the browser.

    would still really like to hear any alternative solutions to this – or indeed why its working for some and not others. has anyone got it working in chrome RECENTLY?

    cheers

  55. Alice

    This script is unfortunately not working for me in Firefox at the moment either. Minimal improvements on what it used to look like, but unfortunately it still doesn’t look anything like the old Gmail.

    • Rahul Arora

      Hi!
      Well, I’ve done some good changes in the latest version of this userstyle, you should at least give it a try and I’m sorry if you’re not liking it.

  56. Aftab

    It works wonder … Plz post ur work on other blogs as well …so that there is relief for many google user …

  57. Sal

    Hi!

    I have a question. Should this userstyle work even if you install it just as a Greasemonkey userscript? I did, and it doesn’t seem to work.

    Also, what themes does this userstyle work with?

    Thanks for your great work!

    /Sal

  58. FuGmail

    Thanks so much Rahul! My old gmail inbox look is mostly back, and I was also able to get rid of the annoying “Chat” and list of names which were robbing space by the inclusion of an option I’d not been able to find in the past.
    Now, is there a chance you’ll be working up a solution to the Fat Gray look, now included when one has several emails in a string of the same topic? It takes up screen space, is not nearly as instinctive or distinctive as the better old way…, harder on the eyes.
    Happy with what you’ve done so far, even if the other fix I’d like is not in the cards.
    Once again, Thank you!

  59. Bill Jones

    Hi Rahul

    Firstly, GREAT job, you have gone well beyond just getting rid of the awful scroll bar that I have seen in other so called Reversion scripts. One small thing – not sure if this can be changed in the script but the whole thing seems a little too far shifted to the left so that (for example) the dates of the mails are not showing completely. Minor issue but would be great if could be fixed – if this is something I can do within Firefox please let me know.

    Great job once again !!

  60. vivekanandhan

    The new version of gmail is very worst look & tuff operation. it may continous we choose other email functions (yahoomail,Rediffmail,indiatimes,hotmail..etc)

  61. tec496

    Hi Rahul, phantastic work! Just have one problem: Scrolling with PageUp and PageDn does not work (arrow keys, Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End OK). Am I missing something? Thanks.
    [Win7, Firefox, your script version 3.0 from 4/24/2012]

  62. jj

    Will this have an affect on the googledocs page design? I hate that too.

    • Rahul Arora

      No, sorry! I’ll see and try to make it available very soon. Stay tuned JJ!

  63. Anonymous

    All I need is old buttons with text instead of these annoying icons. Could you implement that?

  64. Jerry Unterman

    I have Chrome. Installed stylish and your revert to old gmail but nothing happened.

  65. Bobster

    Hi Rahul, on my gmail account, I’ve logged out of other computers and when I logged back in my primary account was changed to the new look. Curiously on another computer I havent logged out and its still functional with the old look, so Im thinking their must be something in a cookie thats telling gmail to keep the old look and not mix the two. so long as I dont sign out the old look still holds. Thoughts? The one thats still old-look is on a Chrome browser on XP.

  66. sabari

    i hate new version, i want to change the old version. i have seen Settings menu “revert to old look temporarily” is not there. i hv seen in icon also. oldversion option is not there, pls help how to change

  67. Wiechu

    Hi! Any way to move that little star back to the left side in thread view ? It was always on the left side of every single message. I use it a lot to mark messages which need my attention, now I keep looking to the left and see nothing… :/ They really shouldn’t change things like that, I use gmail for few years already and since they introduced that little star it was always on the left side! Are they trying to irritate us ?

  68. mergatrude

    Thank you SO MUCH for the revert to old look button. THANK YOU!!!!

  69. mecom

    Rahul bro !!!
    this look is not working in my side….

  70. DG

    This tool rocks!!!! Thought all was lost with the old look of gmail. Installed Stylish in Chrome, added the ‘revert to old gmail’ software and, “BOOM” it was back!! Thanks for putting this together!

  71. Sandi

    Thank you so much! I just installed it on Chrome at work and can’t wait to install it on my laptop at home. The missing arrows on the scrollbar was driving me crazy! I like Chrome and didn’t want to stop using it, but using a touchpad with no arrows and no way to really control scrolling was extremely frustrating.

  72. bill

    Rahul, thanks so much for the badly needed return to the old!!
    I see there are 2 ways to install. I installed stylish….
    Way 1, Where are “tools, extension, or options? not seen..
    Way 2, I dragged Rever to bookmarks and clicked on it while in gmail…nothing yet!
    Clueless in Va Thanks

  73. bill

    Ok after rebooting, I get the big ‘s’ at the top right near the wrench, so we’re getting somewhere.
    Clicking on the big ‘s’ it then says:
    The Return of Old Gmail

    Applies to: mail.google.com

    Edit Disable Delete Check for update

    Problem is the ‘return of old gmail is not clickable so wondering how it is that you ‘return to the old gmail’!!

    Sometime the big S, has a tiny red symbol at it’s base and sometimes others. what do those mean?

  74. Lorne

    Great job. Looks so much better than Google’s design.

    Re arrow keys: It looks like the arrow keys are swallowed because the “new” look has scroll bars on the mail div, but the “old” look has scroll bars on the window. Not sure what crazy things Google’s done to prevent the arrow keys from bubbling up. Is there a change that can be done so that the “expected” container has overflow:scroll on it?

  75. callie

    This really saved me. The new look and operation of Gmail was so distracting to me that I couldn’t focus. It was hard to read and I kept losing the flow of conversations. I think it is a visual nightmare for folks like me who need a more “calm” interface. i was so upset until I found your fix.
    THANK YOU – THANK YOU – THANK YOU!

  76. Chad Landingham

    I love you! Thank you so much, wish I could buy you a beer!

  77. Mike

    use

    .G-Ni
    {
    display:inline !important;
    }

    Will make buttons show all the time instead of show/hide

  78. Vanessa

    Thank you for helping me to get back the gmail old look! It is awesome! Goodday!

  79. Erica

    Thank you!! This fixes everything – I’m so happy there are good people like you out there making the internet a less visually awful place to be. I, too, would buy you a beer, given the chance.

  80. Rhonda

    OMG, yes!! The new look has waaaaayyyy too many scroll bars everywhere, which makes navigating to find anything extremely annoying because you can’t see anything other than the “postage-stamp” size of space that is now left-over for the actual email. The scroll bars create a claustrophobic feeling of being squished in on all sides, and having only half the visibility. On a netbook, it is extremely limiting. I VOTE to have the OLD LOOK Back, ASAP.

  81. Rhonda

    Unfortunately, the Revert to Old Gmail Bookmarklet doesn’t work. It says that the changes to the settings are complete. I see the “revert to old compose” in the settings menu, but the changes don’t take place. If I try again using the Revert bookmarklet (dragged and dropped into my bookmarks toolbar), after reloading gmail into my Mozilla Firefox browser and clicking on the bookmarklet, I get a message saying that the revision failed. Sadly . . .

  82. Saeb

    The JavaScript bookmarklet has stopped working and the Stylish solution doesn’t work with themes.

  83. Ethan

    Love what this does. But why do i get an encryption warning now every time i open gmail? When i uninstall stylish the warning goes away!

  84. Csani

    Hey Rahul, thanks for this script.
    Which of the current themes is this Stylish script modifying?
    I think this script of yours could be THE long term solution for us, needing back the previous look.

  85. Dan

    The Java bookmarklet doesn’t work anymore.When I click on it on Gmail, I get the “Settings menu probably updated…” But when I click on the gear button no menu shows up.

    • Rahul Arora

      Hi Dan!

      The bookmarklet has stopped working for me too. I guess Gmail might have completely removed the “Revert to Old look temporarily” option. You should give a try to my UserStyle, I hope it’ll give you the old Gmail feel.

      Cheers!

  86. KathyP

    Hi Rahul! This is a totally awesome find. Thank you so much. The “new” look has been nothing but a pain since I was forced to make the change.

    I had turned off the chat option, and was left with that big empty white panel and the tiny little message panel (once half populated by ads). After applying your changes, I still have the right side, white space empty chat panel. Is there anyway to fix this? (If you’ve answered this already, just point me to the right directions). Again, thanks! Yer a peach!

  87. Reisa

    Thank you so much! I’m self employed and do a lot of my work through email. The “new” Gmail has been absolute Hell. I couldn’t find anything, and every little step took extra time. Thank you so much!

  88. ajeet

    it was really helpful for me thanks… got my old gmail

  89. Pat

    Is anyone else having a problem with this style all of the sudden? For some reason I can now only scroll by clicking the scroll wheel on my mouse. Arrow keys and the mouse itself don’t seem to work anymore. Oddly enough it worked this morning when I was in Canada on vacation…

  90. Adam

    Please fix the scrolling issue on your style!!! We are still trying to use it.

  91. Jacob Winkler

    Will this apply to the new compose as well? Or will we need a separate fix for that? That is so much more annoying for me than this cosmetic switch.

    Thanks so much though and be blessed!

    Jacob

  92. Tadej

    I’m using this since the new gmail look and it worked perfectly all the time.

    But now I can’t scroll inside email any more :(

    If the mail is long, I can only see top, can’t scroll down.

    Are there any updates available?

    Thank you

  93. Karly McIntosh

    YOU’RE A GENIUS!!!!!!!!! DIDN’T THINK THIS WAS POSSIBLE, THANK YOU SO MUCH :-)

  94. enthronement

    I have been gone for a while, but came back on [date.

Leave a Reply

* marked fields are required