Google adds More Shortcuts to Gmail, trick to check them all

Google adds More Shortcuts to Gmail, trick to check them all

Slimy on 18 December 2007 - 04:07 · 18 comments & 10090 views

Advertisement (Why?)

Everyone loves things that save them time. Seeing the success of the current shortcuts, Google has decided to add even more Gmail shortcuts to its email service - the only problem now is remembering them all. Never fear! Google has also added a help key for shortcuts: “?”. Whenever you are logged in, simply hold shift and hit the forward slash button on your keyboard to bring up the shortcut reference menu. Then, click anywhere in Gmail off of the menu to close it. The feature is only available in the latest version of Gmail, which only works for English IE7 and Firefox 2. Sorry Opera users, you got shafted again! If you have them off, enable shortcuts in Settings ("?" is a shortcut itself).

About the Author

Full name: Unknown
User name: Slimy
Contact: via forum PM
Submissions: View All
More: View Profile

Post a comment · Send to friend Comments · There are 18 additional comments

(6 replies) #1 rpgfan on 18 Dec 2007 - 05:37

Why did Opera get shafted? The question should be, "Why did only IE7 and Firefox 2 get it?" My thoughts: IE7 = lots of users, Firefox 2 = Firefox+Google Toolbar (why would Google deny users of its Google toolbar?)

#1.1 Jugalator on 18 Dec 2007 - 08:20

As well as Firefox having several times more users than Opera, some figures speaking of 10-20x as many.

Last edited by Jugalator on 18 Dec 2007 - 08:29

#1.2 Unplugged on 18 Dec 2007 - 08:51

People still use Opera?

#1.3 tiagosilva29 on 18 Dec 2007 - 09:03

Opera has it built in.

#1.4 RADicaLMMS on 18 Dec 2007 - 10:53

Yup, people still use Opera, my whole family does. Granted we're only number 3. Wakoopa is pretty cool to track these things.

#1.5 P1R4T3 on 18 Dec 2007 - 14:18

Quote - (Unplugged said @ #1.2)

People still use Opera?

Yes, its my main browser.

#1.6 HawkMan on 18 Dec 2007 - 16:42

Google has shafted Opera constantly since Google started suppoting FF.

Both their spreadhseet and the writer worked fine in Opera, untill they did that Firefox campaign, then suddenly the Google office stuff was patched and non of them worked at all in opera no matter what you tried to mask operas agent as.

It works too since Opera's user base is so small, and people want to use the google stuff. So they can get the Opera users to change to FF, afterall most opera users won't use IE. and they can't shaft the IE users, there's just too many of them.

and come on, if Google had actually just followed the webstandards, then all their stuff would have worked fine in Opera.

#2 mule on 18 Dec 2007 - 06:17

I love shortcuts. Good job.

#3 +Shadrack on 18 Dec 2007 - 07:00

the ? trick works..... now the real question is....what knowledge am i going to give up in order to learn keyboard shortcuts for gmail. hope it isn't the eating or breathing ones...

#4 Lare2 on 18 Dec 2007 - 07:24

Nice addition

#5 Orlando on 18 Dec 2007 - 09:51

Cool.
I love shortcutes too.

But I don't know why shortcutes in Gmail not working like before. Now you need to click somewhere with mouse to work shortcutes. Ex. when I compose new message when I click Tab nothing happens. Before Tab goes to Send button.

Last edited by Orlando on 18 Dec 2007 - 10:03

(1 reply) #6 zarniwoop on 18 Dec 2007 - 11:39

Ok what am i doing wrong? I have firefox 2.0.11 and its not working

#6.1 ellianth on 18 Dec 2007 - 15:14

I remember there used to be old short cuts that could be turned on and off. Maybe you have them turned off somewhere in your settings.

#7 darkpuma on 18 Dec 2007 - 13:28

i have ie7 and its not working for me either.

maybe this hasn't been applied to everyones accounts yet?

#8 rannan on 18 Dec 2007 - 22:01

My didn't work but it looks like it was a combination of having my gmail account in Spanish and having the keyboard shortcuts turned off. Once I changed both of those settings, it worked for me. It didn't work in Spanish, though, with the keyboard shortcuts still on.

#9 war on 19 Dec 2007 - 03:20

Shift + c works just fine but Shift + ? does nothing...

#10 analogbits on 19 Dec 2007 - 09:23

Opera rox.

#11 Abhishek Kapoor on 19 Feb 2008 - 18:12

It is really interesting and i also use opera .......as well as IE7

Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!

Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.

Advertisement (Why?)

Neowin.net

Google adds More Shortcuts to Gmail, trick to check them all

Share this Article

About the Author

Related news