Search your gmail in Firefox
December 1st, 2004 by 
Phil
I’ve only recently made the move from Firefox 0.9.x to 1.0 (I was waiting for all the extensions I use to finally get updated) and although I mainly do my searching using keywords, I’m really enjoying the search toolbar. It’s incredibly intuitive, and although I’m both very used to, and very quick at using keywords to perform all my searches I find myself using the search toolbar time and time again, it’s clearly a very intuitive widget, and massively extensible to boot.
It’s not actually listed on the mycroft website, but as well as Amazon, Wikipedia, IMDB and all the other search engines that can be plugged into it, there’s also one for letting you search your gmail (the ‘install’ link on the site doesn’t work though, but you can click this link to install the gmail search engine).
It’s actually quite useful being able to search your mail from your browser, especially when it lets you perform complex queries like I wrote about before.
What’s also nice is that if you don’t type anything and just hit enter it takes you straight to your inbox. Must save me literally seconds every day 
Thanks Phil…a great addition to my search engines!
Posted by Staci on December 16th, 2004 at 9:36 pmIt’s “Gmail” and not “GMail”, Phil.
Posted by Scott on December 19th, 2004 at 1:51 pmWell it’s lucky that I didn’t spell it as GMail anywhere in this post then, isn’t it?
Posted by Pip on December 19th, 2004 at 2:52 pmI take it Scott wanted to say:
It’s “Gmail” and not “gmail”, Phil.
Anyway, thanks for this neat browser extension. You’re right, this must save me literally seconds every day.
One suggestion though: it would be nice if, when you don’t type anything and just hit enter, it takes you to http://gmail.google.com/gmail/ instead of http://gmail.google.com/ as that last URI redirects to the first one, which takes about a second or two.
Thanks again, and a happy new year!
Mathias Bynens
Posted by Anonymous on January 2nd, 2005 at 2:41 pmhttp://mathibus.com/
Well, if someone wants to be a pedant, they should get it right.
Yes, you’re right about the URL. I should change that.
Thanks for your words, and a Happy New Year to you too!
Posted by Pip on January 2nd, 2005 at 3:44 pmThis is a great extension, although would it be possible to make it go to https://gmail.google.com/gmail ?
Posted by ShadowZero on May 8th, 2005 at 5:11 pmI think that’d probably be the best thing, yeah.
Posted by Pip on May 8th, 2005 at 9:54 pmUmmm phil? This may sound incredebly stupid but how does one get a new account started all I get when looking up g-mail on the web thruogh is the log in ext. can’t get in if your not in..help..billyjacked50@yahoo.com….
Posted by Anonymous on July 26th, 2005 at 1:50 pmnew convert from the explorer user madness the quiet of the web is amazing over here but I’am begging to realize a much briter and savy crowd uses this browser so for a spoom fed pop up we’ll do everything for you and fot this suffer our providers rude esxplosion of advertisements…help!!
ah, the link isn’t working.
Posted by ZoriN on September 16th, 2006 at 8:41 amah yes, the tong-web site appears to have disappeared totally. Still, my install script still works and I’ll keep the link to the original site in case it does come back at some point.
Posted by Pip on September 16th, 2006 at 6:15 pmDoesn’t work with me .. it just opens the inbox
Posted by Kimmo on March 26th, 2007 at 4:18 amHm, yes. Google have changed something. I’ll have a look to see if I can fix it.
Posted by Phil Wilson on March 26th, 2007 at 11:51 amI may be a couple of years too late but…
Lovely concept. As of Sept 9 2007 it’s still opening the gmail inbox without a search, and ignoring any open tabs (firefox 2.0).
Any chance your real life will let you get back to it for us receivers?
Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Malc on September 10th, 2007 at 1:11 pmEven I’ve explored the Gmail search to it’s atomic level and wrote a big post on it.
Please find the post here. Your comments are always welcomed.
http://mymindleaks.com/demystifying-gmail-search-part-1/
Posted by Maheshwaran.S on February 26th, 2008 at 3:24 amIt it great that Gmail has added tasks.It goes a long way towards making it a competitor to outlook
Posted by Paul Rasmussen on February 3rd, 2009 at 2:47 pm