Hide friends’ status in GMail chat
If you are wondering why your friends list in GMail chat is suddenly showing friends’ status messages, wonder no longer! You are not alone. With Google concentrating on useless new stuff like buzz, wave etc, they seem to have forgotten what the users really want.
As I value screen space more than gold, I hate it when status messages show up and bloat my list size to twice its original size. Most people think that this is the aftermath of Google’s new Buzz. Well, no actually, this happens because the setting to hide the statuses isn’t an inbuilt feature in Google Chat, but is a Google Labs feature. Its called Muzzle and Google have silently removed it from the Labs database, along with it some other features listed here [Gmail Labs graduation and retirement]. I can understand when they say they want to clean up, but keeping the Back to Beta feature which just adds a beta label to GMail and eliminating Muzzle seems utterly stupid.
The only solution that I have found so far is to use a greasemonkey script which will hide the statuses and make it behave normally. You can find it here [GMail Muzzle Lab Reviving]. If you are not familiar with scripts read this [Installing Scripts]. I will update this post when there is a better alternative to this.
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- Google Chat with Status messages
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- Google Chat without Status messages
on February 26th, 2010 at 0:20 said :
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on February 26th, 2010 at 4:25 said :
Thanks! I’ve just noticed that status-misery, tried to google how to hide status and found your page! I’m glad to hear that other people find it annoying too…and there is a solution at least :)
Regards,
csiga00
on February 26th, 2010 at 5:39 said :
I added your blog to bookmarks. And i’ll read your articles more often!
on February 26th, 2010 at 7:54 said :
Dude!That helps..was annoyed of the removal of Muzzle..
on February 26th, 2010 at 10:29 said :
Good job Sid !
on February 26th, 2010 at 21:31 said :
Thanks so much! I’d never used greasemonkey but was able to install both greasemonkey and your scripts in < 1 min.
on February 27th, 2010 at 9:10 said :
Thanks a lot!
on March 4th, 2010 at 4:32 said :
Thanks man. Good job. It was a fail removing Muzzle and it’s great that there was someone who gave us back this tweak.
on March 5th, 2010 at 2:13 said :
Realy useful stuf. thanks fr u share.
on March 25th, 2010 at 14:10 said :
This was kewl =) count me in for more =^__^=
on April 29th, 2010 at 0:00 said :
HI..
I m unable to access that above given link. I want to hide the status message in my buddy/chat list.
can anybody help me.
on January 19th, 2011 at 15:12 said :
I am very thankful to this topic because it really gives useful information ,;`
on March 14th, 2011 at 22:11 said :
Thank you for posting this! I gave up a while back and was just living with the status updates for the past year (and secretly cursing Google for the change).
on April 3rd, 2011 at 14:52 said :
Wow, wonderful blog layout! How long have you been blogging for? you make blogging look easy. The overall look of your website is great, let alone the content!
on July 3rd, 2011 at 23:52 said :
Ah this is awesome!
Excellent work!
on July 7th, 2011 at 2:16 said :
Any thing for IE users?
on August 24th, 2011 at 16:39 said :
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on September 6th, 2011 at 15:55 said :
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on September 8th, 2011 at 11:10 said :
Works great (latest Mac Mini/Firefox). Thank you thank you! Google, get a clue!
on September 10th, 2011 at 13:11 said :
forums which go across the very same subjects? Thank you!
on November 13th, 2011 at 7:51 said :
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You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this matter to be actually something that I think I would never understand. It seems too complicated and very broad for me. I…