Customize Your Google Service Links

At the top of Gmail, Google Calendar, and Docs & Spreadsheets, you’ve probably noticed links to other Google services. It’s part of Google’s push to tie its many products together. I find the links very useful. I love being able to switch between Gmail and my calendar with one click. Here’s what I’m talking about.

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The only problem with these links is that I never use Photos or Groups. They’re just taking up space that I’d rather fill with other Google services like Google Reader or Analytics. Luckily, (like you didn’t see this coming) with a little help from Greasemonkey we can add and remove any links we want!

If you’re using Firefox and have the Greasemonkey extension installed, just click this link to install my Google Service Links script. You can edit it and turn on/off any links you want. Here’s what my screen currently looks like.

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You can see that I’ve removed Groups and Photos and added Reader, Analytics, and Notebook. Woo! If you’re feeling dangerous, you can even turn on every Google service like so (click to enlarge):

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I’ve also included two extra options. The first lets you add a link to your Flickr page in lieu of Google Photos. The other allows you to change whether or not the links open in a new window (tab) or in the current page. Hope you enjoy!

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BobNatcho

This is exactly what I am looking for. Is there anyway to add this bar to http://www.google.com?
BobNatcho

To clarify: I do understand the “more”. I would rather have the link bar.
http://www.sitening.com Tyler Hall

Yes, it is possible. It would just mean recreating that bar on the Google page. Basically, create an absolutely positioned div in the top left corner and add your links. I’ll see if I can whip something up in the next few days.
BobNatcho

Hey thanks alot. This stuff looks pretty simple but still difficult at the same time.
I made my own web page which is a Google X clone hosted on my webserver. I need to play around wit it more to add more services all on one screen without having to click to click again to go to a service. Sounds lazy but not to me. I am just having trouble having Google Suggest added to this personal home page of mine so I still use Google Suggest but having the Services Link at the top left would help alot. Thanks again the reply.
http://robbycolvin.info Robby

You might want to add the following included page as well:

https://*.google.com/*

I always use https://mail.google.com when using Gmail.
Rob

i cant seem to get this to work, or understand how to edit it rather…any help?
Rob

well scratch that…i’ve edited the js file…it just doesnt do anything in my google pages…what am i doing wrong?
http://www.sitening.com/ Tyler Hall

It looks like Google has tweaked parts of GMail so the Greasemonkey script no longer works. The technical answer is that the links at the top used to be part of the page’s HTML. Now they’re being loaded dynamically via Javascript. I’m sure there’s a workaround for this, but it will take a bit of digging to figure out. In the meantime, after looking at Google’s new code, it looks like they might be getting ready to let users customize those links themselves. Knowing Google, they might launch the feature tomorrow, next week, or next year. Hopefully they’ll beat me to it

I’ll look for a fix and post it on our blog if/when I find one.