Better Google Chat by JDTX
A customizable UI/UX polish layer for Google Chat with keyboard shortcuts, and a Gemini left-align feature.
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About this extension
This plugin provides a number of UI/UX improvements to Google Chat and also adds keyboard shortcuts.
Features:
- Alternate dark mode theme
- Left-aligned chat content (instead of center-aligned)
- Full-width messages that utilize your entire screen space
- A more compact "New Chat" button
- Better spacing between the icons and names of the channel
- Remove the visually noisy text-icons on channels, replace with a simple "#" sign
- Changes the "Unread" squiggle line to be red to be more obvious
Keyboard shortcuts:
- Require Cmd+Enter/Shift+Enter to send a message
- Cmd or Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to mark all unread messages as read
Features:
- Alternate dark mode theme
- Left-aligned chat content (instead of center-aligned)
- Full-width messages that utilize your entire screen space
- A more compact "New Chat" button
- Better spacing between the icons and names of the channel
- Remove the visually noisy text-icons on channels, replace with a simple "#" sign
- Changes the "Unread" squiggle line to be red to be more obvious
Keyboard shortcuts:
- Require Cmd+Enter/Shift+Enter to send a message
- Cmd or Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to mark all unread messages as read
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for chat.google.com
- Access your data for gemini.google.com
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
More information
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- Version
- 1.1.2
- Size
- 32.53 KB
- Last updated
- 21 days ago (May 6, 2026)
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- License
- MIT License
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