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GMail Firefox Extension

Originally published by "dbarker" on 2004-07-09 13:14:00Z

GMailCompose: If you have a GMail account and use Mozilla or Firefox, this extension is right up your alley.

Makes mailto: links load a google mail compose window and adds a GMailCompose link to the context menu.

Apparently Google has created a URL spec for doing just this. Good for them – client integration has always been a weakness of Web-based mail.

Comment by "Joe" on 2004-07-09 06:14:00Z
The question is, will it work on this copy of Mozilla Spacebadger that I'm running?
Comment by "Deane" on 2004-07-09 06:16:00Z
Works fine with Mozilla Superbunny.
Comment by "Shaun" on 2004-07-15 12:20:00Z
All looks good in Powerfrog.
Comment by "John" on 2004-08-12 15:18:00Z
Same in Watergiraffe
Comment by "Patrick" on 2004-08-25 10:20:00Z
No problems in Seaspider.
Comment by "Koen" on 2004-09-03 09:40:00Z
Also OK in twilightCow
Comment by "Vincent" on 2004-09-08 09:12:00Z
PuffyPenguin, check !
Comment by "jhfds" on 2004-09-09 13:05:00Z
what about in firesomething ?
Comment by "nox" on 2004-10-24 14:41:00Z
No sorry doesnt work in firesomething ;-)
Comment by "Anonymous" on 2005-01-29 10:31:00Z
You can also use the GMail Notifier -- which has an option for doing the same thing but also will tell you when you have new mail
Comment by "Pete" on 2005-02-20 13:26:00Z
I seem to be having troubles in Hairless Beaver....
Comment by "Deane" on 2005-02-20 14:43:00Z
>I seem to be having troubles in Hairless Beaver.... Man, there's a joke waiting to happen...
Comment by "Julien Couvreur" on 2005-03-29 08:39:00Z
I wrote a GreaseMonkey user script to do something similar (replace mailto links with gmail compose links): [http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/images/MailtoComposeInGMail.user.js](http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/images/MailtoComposeInGMail.user.js)
Comment by "Candy Cane" on 2005-04-06 13:47:00Z
>I seem to be having troubles in Hairless Beaver.... Which version of Hairless Beaver? Mine seems to work fine...
Comment by "SwitchBlade" on 2005-05-27 08:28:00Z
I don't have Hairless Beaver. Where can I get it? Are there plugins available for it?
Comment by "Jor" on 2005-06-11 10:44:00Z
Yeah plugins and skins. I was using some protection plugin the other day but it really slowed it down....it didn't seem to respond as well either.
Comment by "seifer333" on 2006-05-29 12:37:00Z
It has an odd effect on GlowingPurpleScorpion, a hairy midget with knives jumps out of nowhere on your browser and crashes it. Hmmm . . . maybe I should switch to FireFox.