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Friday, November 18, 2011

How to get back old Google Mail interface

Hello everyone, if you don't want various yellow polygons and myriad adverts confusing your email, here is how you get Gmail to start to look like it did before you clicked on 'new look gmail' and wouldn't let you change it back. 

1. Go to mail.google.com/mail/#settings

2. Click on 'webclips' and unclick 'show webclips above inbox'   

                                                                     % this gets rid of some adverts

3. On the 'Inbox ' tab, also in settings, unclick 'show markers'

                                                                    % removes the yellow objects

4. You might also find your fonts have got a lot smaller for no reason, go to

chrome://settings/fonts

And you can change the 'smallest font size' to something a bit bigger

5. The new colour scheme is a bit harsh, you can change this in 'themes' pale grey seems to be about the best compromise. 

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