Search your gmail in Firefox
01 December, 2004I’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 🙂
Comments
Staci
16 December, 2004 at 21:36
Scott
19 December, 2004 at 13:51
Pip
19 December, 2004 at 14:52
Anonymous
02 January, 2005 at 14:41
Pip
02 January, 2005 at 15:44
ShadowZero
08 May, 2005 at 17:11
Pip
08 May, 2005 at 21:54
Anonymous
26 July, 2005 at 13:50
ZoriN
16 September, 2006 at 08:41
Pip
16 September, 2006 at 18:15
Kimmo
26 March, 2007 at 04:18
Phil Wilson
26 March, 2007 at 11:51
Malc
10 September, 2007 at 13:11
Maheshwaran.S
26 February, 2008 at 03:24
Paul Rasmussen
03 February, 2009 at 14:47
Thanks Phil…a great addition to my search engines!
It’s “Gmail” and not “GMail”, Phil.
Well it’s lucky that I didn’t spell it as GMail anywhere in this post then, isn’t it?
I 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
http://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!
This is a great extension, although would it be possible to make it go to https://gmail.google.com/gmail ?
I think that’d probably be the best thing, yeah.
Ummm 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….
new 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.
ah 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.
Doesn’t work with me .. it just opens the inbox 🙁
Hm, yes. Google have changed something. I’ll have a look to see if I can fix it.
I 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.
Even 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/
It it great that Gmail has added tasks.It goes a long way towards making it a competitor to outlook