The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)

This appears to be broken as of today. It was working fine yesterday.

And what about a beautifier for calendar?
Great script!!

ok this script works:

http://userstyles.org/styles/4850#review-4528

So you should be able to fix it pretty "easy".

Ok the did not last long...

Ads are now hidden but so are both "New window"
and "Print all". Some times that is, some times the ads are shown.

Damn google!!

Just installed 2.31 working great here!! :)

Though google appz support (hosted domains) would be nice:

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html

Thanks!!

Cipher:
"hey michael elliott, i've tested gmail without my script on narrow window widths, & it has the same behavior whether my script is enabled or not. gmail displays a scroll bar when the width becomes too small. "

Right, but my point was that without the script, the emails are forced into a narrow column in the middle by the righthand sidebar, and it doesn't have any horizontal scrollbar at my width. Only when I use the script does it remove the sidebar and allow Gmail to expand long-text-line emails (or those with frame formatting, like Yahoo mailing lists) to go beyond the visible window, and not wrap to the existing window.

I was just hoping there was something in the script that could be used to force Gmail to never allow lines to extend beyond the right edge of the window, forcing them to wrap as they do when the righthand sidebar is there. As it is, I'd rather live with the righthand sidebar than have to horizontally scroll for every line in those long-line/framed emails. :-)

Normally I use Thunderbird for local email reading, because there are many things I do not like about Gmail's webmail interface that they aren't going to change, but I had a harddisk crash I'm recovering data from still, and until I do I am using the webmail version, meaning I have to workaround those things I don't like, and had hoped this script could let me do that. :-)

"I also don't have the weird firefox behavior you described. I assume that you have a buggy extension or theme interfering & causing all this. My suggestion is: use a new firefox"

As noted in my original question/comment, I already have the newest firefox, as there isn't anything newer than 2.0.0.11 (except for a security update that just happened last night that I verified doesn't affect the problem, upping it to 2.0.0.12).

It could well be an extension/addon (I don't use themes, just whatever the built-in default is, and I don't use skins/themes in WinXP either--it's set to the old gray flat look for everything). I've not yet verified if it happens with them all off or not, I'll do that eventually (it doesn't actually cause me a problem since my normal width is greater than that at which the problem occurs).

Correction, work's in 10% cases, in 90% do not...

Email body wider doesn't work for me! :(

I'd like to update the comment I left previously, in that it is only when emails contain wider text/etc that the problem appears.

In experimenting with when the problem appears I also found a probable bug in Firefox (2.0.0.11) itself (haven't eliminated all addons yet, but it's not this script causing it) that if I narrow the Firefox window horizontally to less than roughly 560-565 pixels, this causes the scrollbars to display incorrectly for the actual Firefox window itself. The vertical scrollbar begins to be forced offscreen to the right, and same for the horizontal scrollbar's right end. Eventually as the window is narrowed it gets so bad the horizontal scrollbar can be put into a position where you can't grab it to scroll back (though of course you can still click in the empty portion of the scrollbar, or use the leftarrow icon, and it will scroll back, but the scrollbar's scroll "button" is not visible/grabbable once you let go of it.

I definitely appreciate the script idea, and the work already put into it, but it has a definite problem with non-maximized Firefox windows causing the data to be potentially wider than the window size, forcing scroll to right to read it all.

I don't know scripting, so I am not sure where to modify the script to do this:

The width of the data on screen when using this script is wider than my Firefox window, and doesn't auto adjust as it does when the script is not enabled. It needs to automatically sense the width of the Firefox window, and adjust the visible portion of the Gmail screen area so it doesn't force a window area wider than Firefox actually is.

I'd really like to use this script, but if I have to constantly scroll horizontally for every single line of an email, it's pointless to use it--it'd be easier to just use the CustomizeGoogle, AdblockPlus, and RIP extensions as I am now, and live with skinny email body columns.

Does this script work with the Gmail HTML Signatures userscript?

It's not hiding ads for me.

Yeah sorry must have been a temp issue on googles part. It was not working at all (ads where being displayed) and now it is fine.

Thanks!

Though, could you please add support for hosted accounts (https://mail.google.com/a/) ?

Broken again so it seems. Nothing is working..

sorry to say but its not working on my GMail.
Is is OS specific? I'm on Linux RedHat

Can you add screenshots?