I’ve had my Gmail account since 2004, back when Gmail was invite only. Fast forward to present day, and I have this annoying little ‘invite’ box that sits on the side and does nothing useful for me. All my friends already have Gmail and those who don’t can register for themselves, so what’s the point?
For the longest time, I’ve been for waiting Gmail Labs to create some kind of experimental “hide invite box” feature, but I learned today that you can get rid of it really easily by using up all your invites. All you have to do is type a fake email (I used remove.invite.a.friend@gmail.com) followed by a comma and a space so that you can copy and paste several times and repeat until all your invites are used. Voila! :D
Update: It doesn’t work! I just got another 50 invites after an hour or so :( Gmail please fix this!
Update: I used up my new 50 invites, waited a couple of hours and the box hasn’t returned yet. Looks like it’s gone for good?
Update: It’s back. Curse you Gmail! >_<
Awesome! It really works…thanks for blogging this for us.
Thanks. I tried it again after I got another 50 invites. I hope it doesn’t come back :/
LOL… You will remain cursed. Just Google just like it :P
its not that annoying frankly .. just ignore it
I think it’s gone for good now. It’s been a couple of hours and I still don’t see it :/
I really didn’t think much about it, I have a few things that push it down.
just hit the – sign and it will be a bar instead of a box :D and open the chat box it might push it al lthe way down for smaller resolutions although it doesn’t on my 1200 height :)
still annoying :/
mine has gone so far so good, anyone else care to update?
The invites always come back the next day.
Dear Friend,
The Firefox add-on “Better Gmail” will do it for you.
tnx for your note.
Thanks for letting us know!
I use Chrome and I wish that box removed whatever computer I use.
Viola!
Update: It’s back
Update: Used ‘em all up, again!
Update: It’s back
Hahahahahahaha. The thing bothers me too. Just from reading this page, though, looks like its spreading Gmail like wildfire!
i have adblock plus installed on firefox. i used the “select an element to hide” feature to get rid of the box for me.
Interesting solution! I’ll try that, thanks :)