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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: December 20, 2007
- Total Downloads: 71,555
- Downloads last week: 106
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 54 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
For Gmail aficionados, one must-have Firefox add-on is the Better Gmail extension from Lifehacker editor Gina Trapani. It's basically a collection of her favorite Greasemonkey scripts, nicely packaged for all of us too lazy to install Greasemonkey and all of the individual scripts separately.
The list of what it does is long, so we'll try to summarize. It integrates Google Reader into the Gmail interface. It converts the attachment paper clip to an appropriate icon. It gives you a conversation preview window, a search-by-date option, a filter creation assistant, and label colors. It provides several skins (although we liked Google's original layout the best) and it lets you save search strings. It contains an attachment reminder.
It does not do your dishes.
You can easily turn on or off a feature through the preferences window, which brings us to one of the drawbacks of the add-on: it can only be accessed through Firefox's extension management window. More specific information and instructions are available at the Lifehacker site, and are essential for knowing how to use some of the features, like label colors. Despite these quibbles, we loved this extension and found it extremely helpful.
Publisher's description
From Gina Trapani :This Firefox extension features several Greasemonkey scripts that enhance Gmail, such as adding saved searches, attachment icons, label colors, keyboard macros, a filter assistant, and right-click conversation previews in one handy Firefox extension.
Better Gmail is a compilation of work done by several Greasemonkey scripters, including Mihai Parparita, Ming (Amos) Zhang, norcimo and Moktoipas. The scripts were compiled using Anthony Lieuallen's Greasemonkey Compiler.
Version 1.0.1 fixes a Folders4Gmail bug and an email address iframe bug.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.0.1 fixes the Folders4Gmail bug and e-mail address iframe bug.
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- Average user rating: 3.3 stars out of 54 votes
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Better Gmail 1.0.1
"YUK! NO STARS FOR THIS THING!"
Cons: Too much going on with it...I didnt like it one bit!
Half the things didnt work.Who made this software? Pee Wee Herman?
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0 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: Better Gmail 1.0.1
Pros: but...maybe i do.
i have Gmail,as well.
i just don't know the application...yet.
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Better Gmail 1.0.1
"great software. it just improved the look of gmail"
Cons: no problems with better gmail
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Better Gmail 1.0.1
Pros: made the interface pretty good.. added some nice functions in it..
Cons: Doesnt worked with new gmail... i had to go back to the older version of gmail to use it...
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0 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Better Gmail 1.0.1
Pros: Up-grader for me
Cons: N/A
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