Open Google Calendar in Firefox from any page

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Open Google Calendar in Firefox from any page

by Brad Linder Oct 28th 2008

GCal Popup is a Firefox extension for Google Calendar users too lazy to open a new tab when they want to enter a new appointment or check their calendar. Once the plugin is installed, you'll see a little calendar icon in your status bar. Click it and your Google Calendar will pop up, over the top of whatever page you happen to be visiting. Click the close button and it will go away.

If you're already logged into your Google account you won't even need to login to Google Calendar when the window pops up.

This is listed as an experimental plugin, which means you'll need to register for a Mozilla account and login before downloading. But the add-on seems to be stable enough and hasn't caused my computer to burst into flames. Yet.

[via gHacks]

Tags: firefox-add-on, firefox-extension, gcal-popup, google-calendar

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Helios said 12:15PM on 10-28-2008

dude, I love the site. Enter it for the competition for the best Windows site: http://windows.mintywhite.com

dom said 2:39PM on 10-28-2008

i use prism to launch google calendar and gmail, and i keep them on a separate desktop

Marshall Kirkpatrick said 3:40PM on 10-28-2008

This is great! I love little handy things like this.

zooooz said 6:25AM on 10-30-2008

shouldn't this be possible with a bookmarklet?

Crasoverride said 7:53AM on 10-30-2008

I'm using Gmail notifier plug-in and, if i log in only from it, Gcal pop up don't recognise my gmail account... how can i do?

Crashoverride said 7:53AM on 10-30-2008

I'm using Gmail notifier plug-in and, if i log in only from it, Gcal pop up doesn't recognise my gmail account... how can i do? (sorry for my english... :D)

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