Gmail finally supports Signature Float

I am a big fan of Google's web mail service Gmail but I always hated its insistence on placing my signature at the end of any reply, below any quoted text. If typed my reply at the top of the message it looked wrong without my signature below it. If I added my reply below the quoted text, where the signature was, people would reply saying that they didn't see my response, and ask if I'd hit "Send" by mistake before typing anything. It was very annoying.

For a long time I was a user of the Greasemonkey script Gmail Signature Float, which added options to specify where the signature appeared in Gmail. But updates to Gmail stopped this from working, and the author of the script did not have the time to update it. First, it stopped working in the US version of Gmail, and I had to switch to English (UK). Then an update to Greasemonkey broke even that, and I spent the next few months telling Firefox to skip updates to Greasemonkey. Finally Gmail released a whole new version and I had to start every mail session by selecting "Old version" from a link at the top. What a lot of hassle for such a simple feature!

What I didn't find out until today is that the new version that I have been rejecting actually has an option to float the signature above the quoted text! Click on Settings, and then click on the option at the far right named Labs. On that page you'll find an option called Signature Tweaks, which places the signature where it ought to be, at the top.

Three cheers for Keith C and Dave C, whoever you are! Your little tweak is just the job.

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