GMail Background GIF by Thibault Bruyère

Makes animated GIFs as GMail background possible. Add a GIF in a Google Photos album and use it as theme in GMail settings.

5 (2 reviews)

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You'll need Firefox to use this extension

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About this extension

To use a GIF as a background of GMail:

Install this extension
Give the extension the two permissions that it needs
- Go to about:addons
- Click this extension
- Go to "Permissions" and click the two toggles
Create a Google Photos album or use an existing album and upload your GIF in it
In GMail you can now select your GIF as a theme (see Set a photo as your background)

Feel free to open issues and create pull requests on the github repository of this extension.

To install this extension on Chrome, follow the instructions on the github repository.

Rated 5 by 2 reviewers

Release notes for 1.1.2

Hotfix of the image not loading issue

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