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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.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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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/