Delete Key for Gmail™

Chrome Web Store

by Artem Russakovskii

v1.5.1 Updated Oct 19, 2025 45.29KiB

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Description

-= Description =- Google's Gmail™ has allowed a keyboard shortcut to delete entire message threads (#) for a long time, but it has never made it possible to use a keyboard shortcut to delete individual emails in threads. Until now. Enter Delete Key for Gmail™. Press Shift + 5 (% symbol), and voila - only the current individual message is deleted. It performs the same action as clicking the menu button on a message and selecting "Delete this message." The best part is you can change this shortcut to anything you want from the extension's Options page. Gmail is a trademark of Google LLC. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions. This extension and its developers are in no way associated with Google LLC. -= Changelog =- 1.5.1 - Fixed bugs related to the latest Gmail code changes. 1.5 - Shortcuts no longer conflict with Gmail's own keyboard shortcuts. - Updated to Manifest V3 - Settings panel now uses Bootstrap (mostly because Manifest V3 removed chrome_style) 1.4 - Fixed bugs related to the latest Gmail code changes. 1.3: - Fixed bug where keyboard shortcuts could be activated while typing in some fields. 1.2: - Added support for a secondary shortcut. 1.1: - Fixed bug where delete action would fire if the user was typing in a text field. 1.0: - Initial release.

Reviews (5 cached)

Last 12 months

★☆☆☆☆2023-10-29

Google User

Like others (not the sophists) it doesn't work for me. I refreshed and closed Chrome. I change the setting to "no modifier key" + delete (for the delete key) and it doesn't do anything. But....if I OPEN up the email and then press delete,it works. This is not intuitive or logical. Why should I have to open up SPAM and then delete? I expect the extension to delete whatever is selected and not needing to OPEN it like the default # or remapping to d does.

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-03

Andre Gomes

Just another garbage inside PC... Doesn't work!

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-03

Akua

No this doesnt work. After simpel installation, I have refresh my Chrome and Gmail and it doesnt work. I tried to change keys but still not working.

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-24

Some Guy Online

Does not work; Set NO modifier + Delete; did not work. Set NO modifier + d; worked, but I already had this in Gmail's native shortcut settings.

★★★☆☆2023-09-11

Shannon Benzing

Easy to customize - but it doesn't work for me. I don't know if google has blocked it or if it's b/c I'm on a company managed account that possibly doesn't allow it.