Gmail update: a Delete button

Posted Jan 18th 2006 6:12PM by Marc Orchant

At first I thought I was seeing double. Long frustrated by Google's refusal to add a delete button to Gmail, I had installed the compiled Greasemonkey script I posted about a while back and it's been working fine. A short while ago, I clicked on the button and... nothing happened. I looked to see what might have gone amiss and saw not one but two Delete buttons. I disabled the add-on button in the extensions dialog, restarted Firefox and...

SHAZAM!

There was a shiny new Delete button. This hasn't been officially announced yet (no red text at the top of the page) but the Digg kids are all over it. If you use Gmail, expect to see it show up sometime soon.

Reader Comments

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1. That little delete button made my DAY!

Bets

Posted at 10:56PM on Jan 18th 2006 by Betsy Weber

2. Not showing up for me yet. Strange!

Posted at 11:19PM on Jan 18th 2006 by Alex Ezell

3. Alex: Gmail features tend to "roll" - I'm confident you will see it soon. It took a long time for the Web clips to show up in my account for example.

Posted at 10:34AM on Jan 19th 2006 by Marc Orchant

4. When I first saw it, I felt like I won an oscar.

"I'd like to thank my parents. The millions of other frustrated g-mailers, and google for finally listening to us."

Posted at 1:26AM on Jan 20th 2006 by Jonathan

5. Hi Marc,
I just had the excat same experience as yours today. I have restarted the firefox but still have two delete buttons. One Oscar is nice, but two is too many:) How can I unable the extensions?
Thanks!

Posted at 3:36PM on Jan 20th 2006 by aslihan

6. Sorry, I meant "how can I disable the add-on button in the extensions dialog"...

Posted at 3:40PM on Jan 20th 2006 by aslihan

7. aslihan: To disable an extension (as opposed to uninstalling it which is actually what you should do in this case) simply right-click on the extension in the list displayed in the Extensions dialog and choose "Disable" from the context menu. You'll have to restart Firefox for that to take effect.

Posted at 5:48PM on Jan 20th 2006 by Marc Orchant

8. Marc,

I had a complete different reaction. While a delete button would probably have been nice when I first started using gmail I'd gotten so used to the drop down "Move to trash" option that I spent the next 5 days looking in the drop down for a way to delete only to remember (and curse) that I had to hit the damn button. I think I'm finally retrained, but I'm annoyed that Google didn't leave both. Sure, add a delete button but don't change how I work with this interface. Next they'll take away the archive button and make me use the drop down list.

Posted at 4:00PM on Mar 1st 2006 by Jeff

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