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Better Gmail 2 Firefox add-on works with new Gmail
There's good new and bad news in the fact that Google is rolling out an updated version of Gmail. On the one hand, pages load quicker and there's an advanced contact manager. On the other hand, many of your favorite Firefox extensions for tweaking Gmail may have stopped working.For a while now, personal productivity site Lifehacker has been rolling up some of the best Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail into a package called Better Gmail. And Google went ahead and broke pretty much every single one of those scripts with its new version.
Now Lifehacker has released the initial version of Better Gmail 2. It doesn't have all the features of Better Gmail 1. In fact, right now there are only about 6 options, compared with more than 25 in the old version of Better Gmail. But considering the fact that most users are just starting to see the new Gmail interface, we suspect it will take a little while before the Greasemonkey coders get around to making all of their hacks "newer version" compatible. In the meantime, Lifehacker promises to continue updating both the Better Gmail 1 and Better Gmail 2 packages until Google eliminates the "older version" option. Then all development will be on Better Gmail 2.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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jonji said 10:57AM on 11-25-2007
i used to use "send to gmail" found on the google toolbar of firefox when i want to email a webpage. but now it doesnt seem to work. everytime i press the icon i am led to the gmail site but it doesnt anymore attach the web page. i have to copy paste it. what should i do. thanks
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alex said 9:23AM on 1-06-2008
I just now uninstalled the old set and installed BG2, but Gmail is still telling me that "some scripts may interfere", and gives a link leading to the upgrade page.
I suppose it could be one of the scripts I have inside Greasemonkey but I tried disabling them one by one to see which it was, but still got the warning.
The only Gmail-specific script is called "Gmail Conversation Preview Mod", enabling a right-click preview of a message in Gmail.
What am I missing?
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Brad Linder said 9:30AM on 1-06-2008
It's not just you. Anyone running Better Gmail or other Greasemonkey scripts gets this new message.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/12/05/gmail-warns-against-greasemonkey-scripts/