Gmail label column resizer

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User script that allows the labels column in Gmail to be resized

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Allows the labels column (left panel) in Gmail to be resized.

Latest reviews

David Arnold 2023-01-04: This extension started making life heck for me in the late fall. It manifested itself by causing my labels to disappear after login. I would see them for a few seconds (after login and after reload), then they'd "blink out", leaving an empty column where my labels should be. I'd uninstalled & reinstalled Chrome a couple of times, including manually removing cached files in a few different places on disc, but the behavior persisted. Finally I removed ALL of my extensions, and started re-adding them, luckily wiht this one first. Once it was installed, the behavior returned immediately, so BINGO. DON'T install this if you like seeing your labels!!
Martin Voorsmit 2022-08-03: Werkt niet met Vivaldi.. helaas..
Poul Hansen 2021-11-04: it doesn't work any longer.
Peter Ramirez 2021-06-27: Sometimes it works, often it doesn't. And since this extension only has one job that's...not great,
Steph Bolduc 2021-06-11: Used to work perfectly, but now doesn't function at all with the new update unfortunately. I wish Google would just implement this feature natively.
Brett Tague 2021-03-03: Useless...no longer works - at all
Maxine Gerber 2021-03-01: This used to work perfectly. Suddenly, a couple of weeks ago, it stopped working. I tried removing the extension and adding it back, but that didn't help. Please fix it and I'll update my review!
John Hossbach 2020-12-19: Doesn't work at all. Used to, but Gmail changed and now it doesn't work.
Christopher Franz 2020-12-04: It stopped working and I can no longer resize columns. I can no longer add sub-labels or do much with labels, as I can't resize the column to get to the 3 dots for the options. I tried re-installing etc, updating the browser etc. The extension is enabled won't work. There's no resize bar anymore. Sigh sigh sigh
Ilias Balasis 2020-10-23: This has been good enough for me. To be honest it is the only solution that has actually worked. However, it seems that every time Google is making changes to GMail UI the resizer breaks. It happened again just today, the resized slider is now gone and I rely so much on it as I am classifying my work using a deep tree of "labels".
Erica Benavides 2020-10-06: Doesn't work
Sharon Webb 2020-07-13: The extension only allowed the Labels column to expand instead of making it more narrow, and does not resize any of the other columns. After awhile, it stopped working altogether.
Tobias Wünscher 2020-04-02: Only allows me to make the label column wider. That is exactly what I do not want to do. I want to make it narrower!! The extension has zero use for me.
David Jaramillo 2020-02-10: This extension doesn't work anymore.
Fernando Sanz 2020-01-23: It doesn't do anything at all. I can see the dotted line, and I can move it around, but the side panel doesn't change at all. Completely useless.
Dennis Groeneveld 2020-01-22: Werkt niet....De streepjes lijn komt wel in beeld. Die kan je verplaatsen maar de de kolom breedte blijft hetzelfde....
Jenny L 2020-01-21: You have to reload the gmail after adding it. Love it!
Guillaume NGUYEN 2020-01-13: This extension doesn't work anymore. You can grab the resising bar but it doesn't change the interface. I currently use the extension "VetTools New Gmail Resizer" that work fine with the current Gmail Interface for this functionality. Hope this help.
Glenn Beaudoin 2019-12-17: I have installed and I am still unable to resize the label column.
Anonymous 2019-11-22: allowing only the enlargement of the bar, impossible to decrease the size below the default size.
Ed Kotlan 2019-10-15: Just what I was looking for...I have lots of sublabels, and couldn't see enough of the text to know which sublabel I was navigating to!
Kurt Anderson 2019-08-02: Slammed my labels column SHUT...and won't slide open! Really? I read a lot of the reviews, tried resetting the zoom to 100 as suggested, nothing worked. This add-on not only didn't do what I expected, but seriously interfered with functionality. Worse than useless. Had to disable.
Michael Scollay 2019-06-06: Nice job indeed and it allowed me to see all of text on the left. However, it would be great if other columns could be resized as well
Anthony Intino 2019-05-15: Downloaded this addon because I wanted to make the sidebar smaller. Unfortunately this only lets you make it bigger.
Jeannette Darcy 2019-03-21: I wish oh wish this would have worked! I resized my view to 100% but that didn't help. I really hate that Gmail vertical split columns are too wide and not responsive to screen size, and I thought at last I had found a fix. I'm on a Macbook laptop, so maybe it only works for Windows?
Nor Ger 2019-03-18: Funktioniert mit neuer Gmail-Optik nicht mehr.
Ricardo Borges 2019-03-01: Don't work with new gmail
Kamil Vašica 2019-02-17: This would bre great extension but it does not work. Does not resize. Maybe it needs to be revisited after google gmail apearance changes.
Ryan Fick 2019-01-18: Thank you for updating this extension to work with the new format!
Bradson Goldie 2018-12-26: "Hate" is a strong word. But right now this extension only allows me to make the sidebar LARGER, when (of course) I want to make it smaller. If this gets fixed, I'll gladly revisit my score.
Ηλίας Μπαλάσης 2018-10-22: Unfortunately this has stopped working with the new (forced) GMail style Any thoughts? anyone?
justaguy123_ 2018-09-21: THIS EXTENSION SUCKS. GMAIL, YOU ARE LIGHT YEARS BEHIND OUTLOOK AND OTHER EMAIL SOFTWARES. FOR A TECH COMPANY, THIS IS EMBARASSING THAT YOU ARE SO BAD AT EMAIL. FIGURE IT OUT.
Jason Diamond 2018-09-21: Have used this for YEARS but not working on my MAC gmail at the moment.. Disappointing becuase Google doesn't provide this simple required task and everytime they update it must cause trouble for this extension.
Chris Smith 2018-09-20: Works perfect for the old Gmail interface. Would love to use in with the new
Shelly Briscoe 2018-09-04: Does not work. I have Windows 7. The line slides over but column stays the same.
Daniel R 2018-06-22: I'd be amazing to make a version for Inbox by Google too!
Leonardo Barbosa 2018-05-29: Doesn't work with the new Gmail UI
Lane Babuder 2018-05-07: This utility works great, however it needs to be updated to work with the new GMail interface, as it does not at this moment!
Michael Shemtoub 2018-02-15: amazeballs
Mari Ann Lisenbe 2018-02-12: Very thankful that this extension exists. Without it, Google gmail is worthless to me since I like to store things in sub-labeled folders. Yeah, it's a little quirky, and has to be resized occasionally. BUT, this functionality should be native to gmail, and not even require an extension.
Arco Witter 2018-01-29: Great idea, however... The column can be resized, but the information to the right of the splitter is gone. So this extension is useless. Please fix!
Rob Reinking 2018-01-24: It does not work everyday. I have to refresh it and restart gmail
Steven Gliebe 2018-01-18: It worked. Nice drag bar.
Doc Colour 2017-12-08: Yes! Perfect! Greatly appreciated! :)
Anonymous 2017-12-07: Thank you for this very useful little tweak. It is unbelievable that Google still has not added this setting. Could you also create this tweak for google Inbox ? Labels are simply useless because unreadable.It is the only reason why i do not use Inbox. Tx again.

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