Gmail Notifier extension for Firefox

[Hiro2k]

This has to be one of the most useful things I've ever seen!

Gmail Notifier Progress

http://www.nexgenmedia.net/images/gmail.png

You can install it for FireFox (Seamonkey was busy doing usefull stuff) from here. Note that it seems that 0.9 itself won't work well, and that you need 0.9 branch builds due to a bug.

Its currently a toolbar item (I'll do a statusbar version next week), and you click on it to login (with an nice login window). After you login, clicking on it will open gmail.

I stress that this is a hack - I am loading gmail into a hidden browser, and when gmail refreshes itself, so will the icon.

***Update**
The number is the amount of new mails in the inbox.

Free gmail invites for better looking icons

Also, it seems that it fails if you have never logged into gmail before with the profile - must be a cookie issue or such.
Posted by doron at June 25, 2004 03:13 PM


http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/doro...ves/005836.html <- blog

http://www.nexgenmedia.net/extensio...gm-notifier.xpi <- install

[Sirber]

There are "..." in the links. NOOB :p

[edit]

http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=173&vid=504
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=127&vid=275

[cypher_soundz]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/28/1853234.shtml?tid=217&tid=1

:(
Regards
cyph

[sysKin]

Extensions are nice, here's my Firefox' status bar :)
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~syskin/ff.png

Radek

[Joe999]

Originally posted by cypher_soundz
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/28/1853234.shtml?tid=217&tid=1

:(
Regards
cyph

I think the person who sent that in might be jumping the gun a bit. I use the gmail firefox extension and haven't had any problems. Thankfully it seems to be the same experience with everyone else commenting on the article.

That said, it would be rather annoying if something like that were to happen, given that they don't provide a notification agent for anything but windows.

[Hiro2k]

Well from what I read it might be kind of hard to stop the Firefox plugin, because what it has an invisible browser open. The program then just pulls the stats from that browser. So it will probably work for a while before google stops it.

[wmansir]

If anyone wants Gmail I have 6 invites to give. Here's how to get them.

1. PM me an email address I can send the invite to.

2. Make sure your spam filter does not DELETE spam on that account. This is especially important for users of webmail services like Hotmail or Yahoo, which will most likely classify it as spam. Just make sure you can fish it out of your spam folder if it does.

EDIT: 4 Left.

[Neo Neko]

I have been contemplating compiling in that just announced gmailFS into my linux system. Sounds kinda nifty.

[Hiro2k]

I read that it's dead already :(

[wmansir]

I'm not suprised. Google would bust that as soon as they could. I wouldn't be suprised if it was against the ToS for Gmail.

Gmail also recently introduced a scrambled picture test to stop other 3rd party apps from doing auto-logon. They have published the specs to create apps like their own Gmail Notifier. They allow an app to check for new mail without causing the server load of loading the whole webpage.