We’ve highlighted Gmail Labs features you should enable before, but you’ll find more than 20 useful features hidden inside Gmail’s Laboratory, and Google’s releasing new ones all the time. Here are 10 more powered-up Gmail Labs worth enabling.
The new Smart Recipient feature adds two (extremely helpful!) functions to your Gmail account: First, it analyses your email history and suggests who you should be sending your message to, based on who you email the most.
If you have Chrome 6+ or Firefox 2+, you can enable this Gmail labs feature that changes the favicon into a favicon that also displays how many unread emails you have. Priority Inbox users will have the unread count taken from that folder, instead of your Inbox. If you’re like me, and have 5726 Priority Inbox items and 71805 regular inbox items, you’ll never see an icon different from that there one above. Might as well not bother. [Gmail Blogspot via Techcrunch]
After 18 months of Gmail Labs being in operation, Google’s killing off some unpopular features, but also promoting the oft-used ones to permanent functions. Say hello to the forgotten attachment detector, YouTube previews and custom label colours.
