Vincent Oberle’s blog
How to get a GMail Delete button
I have been complaining (and others too) about the lack of delete button in GMail. The goal of Google is to push you to archive mails, not delete them, but there are some mails I really want to delete because I don’t want them to pollute my search result.
If you are using Firefox, here is an easy way to add such a button.
1) First install the Greasemonkey extension.
It’s a very cool extension that lets you add “user scripts” to any web page to change its behavior. Installing an extension is easy, click on the “Install Greasemonkey” link. Firefox will show a warning banner at the top of the page telling you it prevented this site to install software. Click on the “Edit Options” button and choose “Allow”. Click again on “Install Greasemonkey” link. A window will appear, click on “Install Now”. Now close and restart Firefox.
2) Next step is to install the Greasemonkey script GMail Delete Button.
Just choose the “GMail Delete Button” link. It will load a page full of Javascript code. In the Firefox Tools menu, choose “Install user script” and click on OK.
3) Now just reload your GMail page and a delete button should be there.
More great Greasemonkey scripts can be found in their script repository.
May 4th, 2005 21:04
Here’s the link to a much improved Gmail Smart-Delete Button Script written by Paul Moriak:
http://dunck.us/code/greasemonkey/Gmail_Smart-Delete_Button
It enables/disables itself, and works with all applicable Gmail pages, labels & mail items (unlike it’s predecessor). Excellent script!
May 11th, 2005 00:38
Here is the correct link:
http://dunck.us/code/greasemonkey/Gmail_Smart-Delete_Button.user.js
June 21st, 2005 17:37
The precedent script stopped working recently, but here is another one that works:
http://www.arantius.com/article/arantius/gmail+delete+button/
June 21st, 2005 21:44
It is almost like Google likes to break the scripts. They have changed the Gmail address, so you need to go in Tools -> Manage User Scripts…, choose “GMail Delete Button” and edit each entry in the “Included Page” box to replace “gmail” with “mail” since the new GMail address is http://mail.google.com/mail/