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Gmail Notifier for Mozilla/Firefox

Aug 04, 2004 11:51 AM
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Get Firefox

The extension will check Gmail every X minutes and shows the number of unread Gmail messages in your browser's status bar. Nicely done.

Firefox extensions I'm currently using:

  • DOM Inspector
  • Web Developer
  • Bloglines Toolkit
  • Adblock
  • GMailCompose
  • googlebar
  • Allow Right-Click
  • BugMeNot
  • Google Pagerank
  • Gmail Notifier

If you don't want to search all over, this site gathers the latest Firefox themes and extensions for your convenience.


Comments: Gmail Notifier for Mozilla/Firefox

I was watching The Screen Savers last night as I was piddling with some ASP.NET. Sarah came on to do her usual Window's hack piece and I followed the url to her site*. One of her tweaks articles mentioned a Firefox extension that caught my eye. The Firefox Googlebar extension was something that I was pining for. Well, once I saw how much it rocked I decided to see what other extensions I wanted to play with. Here's the list of extensions that I've decided to use after about 20 minutes of browsing.

DOM Inspector
Googlebar
Checky (tools for validation)
Hide Searchbar (no need to have the search bar taking up space once you install the Googlebar)
Nuke Anything
Popup Count
MiniT (adds the ability to drag the tabs)

* http://sarahlane.typepad.com/sarahword/windows_tweak_archive/index.html

Posted by: Nate on August 4, 2004 12:21 PM | permalink

I've stopped using the web developer extension, and use bookmarklets instead:

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html

It has all the same functionality, but they are easier to install and arrange, and I can include just the tools I want. It duplicates some of the other extensions too, though not always perfectly -- for instance, I can nuke images with a bookmarklet, but for some reason some images aren't effected and I don't know why.

Posted by: Ian Bicking on August 4, 2004 12:59 PM | permalink

Haha Ian.

I use the web dev. extension for the exact opposite reason -- so that I don't have to worry about managing a bunch of bookmarklets. I leave the toolbar hidden, because of the clutter, but I find it pretty easy to ignore a mulitplicity of options when they're tucked away in a menu.

My favorite feature is the ability to outline all block- or table-level elements. Very, very handy for web design.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on August 4, 2004 1:20 PM | permalink

This would be the perfect time for Kearns to pass out a link to the Powertool he created which outlines all block level elements in IE...well, aside from the fact that this blog post is about Mozilla/Firefox.

I installed the developer toolkit for Mozilla a few months back but was annoyed with how bulky the toolbar itself was. Maybe I'll have to take another look now that my enthusiasm for Firefox has grown again.

Posted by: Nate on August 4, 2004 2:32 PM | permalink

Show blocks for the webdevless:

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/webdevel.html#show_blocks

Mostly I use show anchors, return to referrer, JS shell, and occassionally show blocks. It takes me a while to remember these things exist -- having them in the bookmarks toolbar keeps me from completely forgetting them.

Posted by: Ian Bicking on August 5, 2004 4:29 PM | permalink

"Go back to document.referrer" is a great tool when used in conjunction with tabs (e.g. whom I should credit in a blog post).

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on August 5, 2004 4:51 PM | permalink

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