How To Add Emoticons/Smilies In Gmail

Who doesn’t know about Gmail? Everyone knows about it! That’s because it is the best webmail. It has loads of features. Almost everything, but recently I found out that it does lack of one thing. And that is emoticons. Yes, Gmail doesn’t have emoticons to be used while composing mails.

But no worries readers. I have found a Greasemonkey script that allows you to use emoticons in your mails. It’s been a while since I last posted about a nice Greasemoneky script. So, here I’m with a very cool script that I’m sure all Gmail users would love to use.

Requirements:

1. Mozilla Firefox (Download here)
2. Greasemonkey add-on (What is Greasemonkey? - Download here)

Where To Get It?

Now all you have to do is download this Gmail Emoticons Script. Make sure Greasemonkey is installed and enabled before downloading the script. Then restart your Firefox to complete the installation. After restarting, open your Gmail compose mail and see the Emoticons option.

How To Use It

To use these emoticons, while composing a mail, click the Emoticons button beside the Check Spelling link. A pop-up window will open with the emoticons. To use them, drag and drop the emoticon in the composing pane. Remember, don’t drop them at any other place except the composing pane, or it will mess everything. I hope you get it! :)

Screenshots:

gmail emoticons

gmail-emoticons

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Author: Haris Nadeem
He is the founder of Sizzled Core and a Pakistani blogger who loves gadgets and exploring out the web!

29 Comments

Keshav Khera

the trick is cool, but i use live mail with pop access and it has very cool emticons :smile:

Sep 29th, 2007
Haris

@Keshav: Hmm.. I didn’t noticed the emoticons in Live mail. Will check it now. Thanks for letting me know.

Sep 29th, 2007
ram

Wow this is a nice add-on, i use gmail alot, thanx for the heads up

Sep 30th, 2007
Shankar Ganesh

Wow, thanks Haris! I love the script, installing right away!

Stumbled!

Sep 30th, 2007
Haris

@ram: You are welcome, ram :)

@Shankar: Thanks a lot for the stumble!

Sep 30th, 2007
Shashank

great post…also tell me if these can be used in google chat also becoz i miss smileys in gtalk very much..

worth a stumble :wink:

Sep 30th, 2007
Haris

@Shashank: Nah, they can’t be used in Gtalk. :( And thanks a lot for the stumble.

Sep 30th, 2007
Madhur Kapoor

Nice post Haris .

Sep 30th, 2007
Lil_big_mama

:mrgreen: I was so jealous, but now I am Happy!!! :grin: I can now use my smiles in gmail. Thank you for the post and RSS feeds…

Nov 17th, 2007
Haris

@Lil_big_mama: LOL, you’re welcome :)

Nov 18th, 2007
Sumesh

Hmm….I wrote a similar post at http://www.techzilo.com/gmail-emoticons/ in August….and our titles are the same.

But hey, nobody can copyright ideas ;)

Nov 28th, 2007
Haris

@Sumesh: Same titles! LOL! I read many posts of yours, but never came across this one.

Nov 28th, 2007
BOB

http://www.sizzledcore.com/wp-.....n_evil.gif
:evil:

IT DOESNT WORK

Feb 21st, 2008
Pneumatiky

Thanx, very useful

Feb 29th, 2008
Ali reza

Find firand_ chat_ send email and . . . . .

Mar 9th, 2008
Katie

I really wanna do it but i dont have firefox and do not know how 2 install it.

:?: 2 do?????

Mar 29th, 2008
Katie

I really wanna do it but i dont have firefox and do not know how 2 install it.

:?: 2 do?????

Mar 29th, 2008
minou

ik praat nederlands :razz: :oops: vet die smilies

groetjes minou :???: :cool: :twisted: :neutral: :arrow: :shock: :?: :!: :sad: :mad: :lol: :eek: :cry: :wink: :roll: :razz: :oops: :idea: :grin: :evil: :cool: :???: :smile: :shock: :arrow: :twisted: :neutral: :mrgreen:

Apr 1st, 2008
Charalambos

Nice!

Apr 3rd, 2008
nygirlz

is this all free?

Jun 8th, 2008
Skip Royeton

I recently signed up for Gmail and have found that it sucks big time. If Google really cared they would address all of the problems Gmail has. Google may be a good search engine, but they have a looooong way to go before they are a half way decent mail site.

Jun 9th, 2008
anonymous

Hi! This looks good, but I thought I’d share: if you find any image on the internet (including images of free smilies) you can copy/paste or drag them into your gmail message. Any image from the internet can be dragged. Thought this might help!

Jul 28th, 2008