Google Mail Checker icon

Google Mail Checker

by Chrome Developer Relations

v4.4.4 Updated Jul 31, 2024 52.3KiB
CWS
2M
Users
★ 4.12
26.7K reviews
#19
of 38.2K
social
#4 of 878
⚠️Not updated in over a year 1M+ users

Description

Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox.
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Reviews (200 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-25
mar wlan

I not working properlky, lots of time is frozen ..

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-02
Tommy Thrasher

0 Stars. I cannot get rid of the extension to take a needed test. If you want to have an extension permanently on your computer this is the one that does NOT leave.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-27
M. Raquel Rivera

The extension is grey and not informing me of any new emails or identifying the number of unopened emails. What's happening?

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-11
Mohamed Anan

useless

★☆☆☆☆2024-09-21
Jonathan Swearingen

I don't need to know how many I have unread, which is currently 20,342.....I need to know when new ones arrive.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-16
Simon Balis

Same as what others are saying. It's been broke for at least a week at this point

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-07
Daniel Hay

I've used this forever and now it doesn't work! And it seems that no one at google cares to solve the problem.

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-03
Dennis Lee

not opening inbox anymore

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-01
Rhys (Reverend)

No longer works on Edge (latest ver)Version 126.0.2592.81 (Official build) (64-bit)

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-01
Andrzej Mieczkowski

No longer works.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-23
Hagi Lerman

The extension is showing the unread but when you click on the icon it wont open gmail

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-22
Lee Evans

Broke a week ago gave up and removed it.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-12
Frederick Bennett

Stopped working

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-11
ABU Games

Does not open the tab anymore :(

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-10
Mathias Mayer

Does not open the tab anymore :(

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-04
Rajitha Sandaruwan Sooriyasekara

Broken. Only displays the gray ? icon.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
Richard Mead

Broken. Only displays the gray ? icon.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
Adam

Currently broken And doesn't update adequately.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
joayne andrews

wth.. Mail stopped working

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
Kyle Ridolfo

If you have multiple windows open, and one of them has a tab open to Google Mail, the extension will no longer open a new Mail tab in the current window.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
Don Lytle

WAS great. Stopped working today. What's going on Google?

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
Tony Bayfield

Mine is displaying correctly every time message(s) arrive, but when there are currently no messages the toolbar badge incorrectly displays a greyed-out "M" with a greyed-out "?" in the number square.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
MUHAMMAD DANIAL SHAUKAT

stopped working this morning, seems there is a problem, I tried to update but noting is happened.

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-03
Larry Finch (Peasy)

Stopped working for me as well google paid way too much for this laziness.

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-15
Estrague Shadowdancer

Good idea. Poor execution. I find it really sad that of the plugins I regularly use the one actually from Google and is fairly simplistic compared to the others is the buggiest.

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-10
Nick Schürmann

Stopped working

★☆☆☆☆2023-04-13
MAREK BRATOS

GOOGLE TELL US WHY THIS EXTENSION IS NOT UPDATED AT ALL!!!!! IT IS SIMPLE WAY TO OPEN GMAIL!!!! COME ON! AT LEAST LISTEN TO USERS WE WANT THAT BACK UPDATED SO IT IT NOT FREEZING!!!

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-30
Tor Ivan Boine

Stopped working with the last chrome update

★☆☆☆☆2023-03-17
Christopher H

This extension hasn't updated the unread amount for the last five to sixth months without disabling and reenabling the extension. Another product killed by Google?

★☆☆☆☆2023-02-26
Aaron Scholl

Used to be a great extension. Then it stopped working.

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-06
Joshua Poodry

doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-02
Asher Langton

Used to be great, but now this extension stops working several times a day. Restarting the browser or disabling/reenabling the extension fixes the problem temporarily. It's a bad look for Google that their own extension for their own email service on their own browser doesn't work correctly.

★☆☆☆☆2022-12-31
86Kiaser

I HATE YAHOO, so much its blocked 5 ways on all of of web browsers, but this app is for some reason forced it for my search engine I'm tempted to fully drop google and go brave, give my phone to a hobo tell him to abuse it however he wants. This is an app for and by google but forces their enquired daughter company on others even if we're fine with google the parent after all.

★☆☆☆☆2022-12-02
Magnus Lööv

Stopped working. No longer opens gmail.

★☆☆☆☆2022-11-23
Chris Morton (PathToEternity)

Used to work great, but just like the Google Voice plugin, has stopped working. No longer correctly displays the number of unread emails and no longer works as a shortcut to open Gmail.

★☆☆☆☆2022-11-08
Josh Calvi (josh)

stopped working months ago.

★☆☆☆☆2022-10-21
Vladimir

As usual google made good product that became unusable now.

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-23
Frank du Mains

Since installing this into a clean Chrome browser installation it fails to open my GMail account, but instead sends me to its own App page. The permissions set for the app do not remain stable, which appears to be the cause of this behaviour. The Dev's need to pull their socks up and either fix this by keeping pace with browser updates, or discontinue offering people this piece of rubbish.

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-30
Patrick Dailey Christoffersen

Stopped working randomly. Fix: restart chrome or deactivate > activate plugin. Repeat at least once a day :(

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-26
B. D.

Won't open new gmail tab when clicking on the icon.

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-01
Kenneth Hung

I don't know who decided it was a good idea to make the notification number color as black. It's literally impossible to read since it's red on black. There's a reason why stop signs are red/white and not red/black. If you're a developer reading this, your extension is great but please change your color back.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-25
Michael Greiner

Does not work in current chrome.

★☆☆☆☆2021-10-15
Mark Perez

The email no longer opens in html view. Garbage now. The page always give me a popup when I try to close it and doesn't clear the notification when I delete emails

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-31
Krzysztof Maliszewski

Does this even work? Shows nothing!

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-29
Amin Soheyli

Use Checker Plus for Gmail: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checker-plus-for-gmail/oeopbcgkkoapgobdbedcemjljbihmemj?hl=en

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-10
Kyle DeLancey

everything I have is google and none of it works right. This checker is not timely with notifications, but also when I read and delete an email in gmail it is often there again as a new email. So maybe its gmail, or the chromeOS, or the checker,..... Its all google and works like garbage together.

★☆☆☆☆2020-12-16
Matthew King

Was a great extension but Google is now flagging it and it is causing critical alert messages and account locks, hence 1 star rating. Disabled and to be removed if not fixed. 5 Star if fixed.

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-29
tonya ollervidez

it does not work at all for me .(

★☆☆☆☆2020-08-08
ROSE ENGLAND

to set not easy

★☆☆☆☆2020-02-16
Alex Brockhill

Access is revoked! That's all it says

Permissions (4)

Permissions

alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs webNavigation Can monitor navigation events

Details

Version 4.4.4
Updated Jul 31, 2024
Size 52.3KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026