Search your gmail in Firefox

01 December, 2004

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 using the gmail search toolbar looks like

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 🙂

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Comments

Staci

16 December, 2004 at 21:36

Thanks Phil…a great addition to my search engines!

Scott

19 December, 2004 at 13:51

It’s “Gmail” and not “GMail”, Phil.

Pip

19 December, 2004 at 14:52

Well it’s lucky that I didn’t spell it as GMail anywhere in this post then, isn’t it?

Anonymous

02 January, 2005 at 14:41

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/

Pip

02 January, 2005 at 15:44

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!

ShadowZero

08 May, 2005 at 17:11

This is a great extension, although would it be possible to make it go to https://gmail.google.com/gmail ?

Pip

08 May, 2005 at 21:54

I think that’d probably be the best thing, yeah.

Anonymous

26 July, 2005 at 13:50

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!!

ZoriN

16 September, 2006 at 08:41

ah, the link isn’t working.

Pip

16 September, 2006 at 18:15

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.

Kimmo

26 March, 2007 at 04:18

Doesn’t work with me .. it just opens the inbox 🙁

Phil Wilson

26 March, 2007 at 11:51

Hm, yes. Google have changed something. I’ll have a look to see if I can fix it.

Malc

10 September, 2007 at 13:11

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.