How to get Gmail for Tablets with Chrome

If you’ve seen the announce­ment made by Google on April 2^nd about the new Gmail inter­face for tablets, and you want to try it for your­self, just fol­low these easy steps.

1. Open Google Chrom, nav­i­gate to http://www.gmail.com/
2. Cre­ate an Appli­ca­tion Short­cut, and put it on the Desktop.
   

   Cre­at­ing Gmail Appli­ca­tion Shortcut

3. Edit the short­cut pref­er­ences and add -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10" to the end of Tar­get, so your entire line should look some­thing like this: C:\Users\Eli\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --app="https://mail.google.com/mail" -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10".
   

   Con­fig­ure the shortcut

   

   Gmail Prop­er­ties — Make Gmail think you’re an iPad

4. Run the shortcut.

If you’ve done every­thing the right way, you should now be look­ing at the new two-pane gmail layout.