Attachment icons for Gmail

Ooh, now this is cool: Lifehacker points us to a this great Stylish script that gently tweaks Gmail to put meaningful icons next to messages with attachments. Instead of a generic paperclip icon, this puts a PDF icon next to messages with PDF attachments, an image icon next to messages with attached images, and so on for Word docs, Zip files, text files, executables, video files, and so on. Very cool.

In case you're not familiar, Stylish is a great extension for Firefox that lets you set up custom styles for web sites, letting you do little things like the tweak above to things like reskinning or totally changing the layout of other sites, and even Firefox itself. Userstyles.org is a site that has collected hundreds of such scripts and is not to be missed.

[Link and image via Lifehacker]

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