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.
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11-25-2007 @ 10:57AM
jonji said...
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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1-06-2008 @ 9:23AM
alex said...
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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1-06-2008 @ 9:30AM
Brad Linder said...
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/