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October 14, 2004

GMail Notifier 0.4 Beta 2

Get it here (identifies itself as 0.3.16).

I'm mainly looking for windows users to test the notification feature (windows 2K/XP only atm) and see if clicking on it opens Gmail in the browser.

If it doesn't, please run Firefox with -console, also set the pref "browser.dom.window.dump.enabled" to true. Firefox should start with a console and the notifier will dump text there when you click on the notification which can help me.

Posted by doron at October 14, 2004 1:46 PM

Comments

Works GREAT! Thank you.

Posted by: EddieB at October 14, 2004 3:21 PM

Works very nice (Win 2k SP4), thank you for this wonderful extension.

Posted by: Shadow3333 at October 14, 2004 3:35 PM

It works very nicely (on xp pro sp2 and mozilla 1.7.3)

Posted by: road_dogg33j at October 14, 2004 5:48 PM

Great utility you have here. Btw, are you in any way involved in the new notifier from Gmail?

Posted by: julian at October 14, 2004 7:25 PM

Notification feature works fine. But I can't open GMail tab by clicking it, on Windows 2000 SP4

Posted by: Goncha at October 14, 2004 8:01 PM

Goncha: so clicking on the notification does nothing?

Posted by: Doron at October 14, 2004 9:13 PM

Works very nice, and much better than the gmail notifier from google as it uses the proxy settings from firefox.

Posted by: Björn at October 14, 2004 10:41 PM

Works in FF , though I don't understand.
Does it just check once, or after a set amount of time? I got the "new email" message after I restarted the browser. Sent a second test, and it did not send a "new message" notification

Posted by: Bill Creswell at October 15, 2004 3:38 AM

I'm working on a small guide. Right click on the Gmail Notifier icon, choose preferences, and you can choose the interval it checks for new mail.

Posted by: Doron at October 15, 2004 6:33 AM

I installed the extension then closed my Firefox Browser. A popup message notified me that I had 7 new messages in my mailbox. I clicked on the link and nothing happened. I, then, clicked on the GMail Notifier icon and GMail opened in a new tab (just like I have configured).

I closed the browser and reopened in -console mode. I looked in about:config, profiledirectory/user.js, profiledirectory/prefs.js then searched the entire profile directory and Firefox installation directory for any file containing the text "browser.dom.window.dump.enabled" and I could not find this setting.

I started Firefox back up with the -console mode enabled and go tthe popup alerting me of my new emails. The console window dumped this information:
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).

I also sent a test email message to myself.
Sent email at 07:48
GMail Notifier set to check every 5 minutes
alert received at 07:58
Google Notifier set to check every ?? minutes
alert received at 07:52
When I clicked on the GMail Notifier alert nothing happened. I clicked on the GMail notifier icon, it resets my unread mail count to 0 and opens my GMail in a new tab. I deleted the message then closed the tab. I sent a test email message to myself again.
Sent email at 07:59
GMail Notifier set to check every 5 minutes
alert not received but unread count was updated at 08:08
Google Notifier set to check every ?? minutes
alert received at 08:00
Sent email at 08:09
GMail Notifier set to check every 5 minutes
alert received at 08:18
Google Notifier set to check every ?? minutes
alert received at 08:12

It looks like it is still only checking every 10 minutes. I only changed the preference after I opened my firefox window and I did not close and reopen the window afterwards. Also the reset count when the notifier icon is clicked seems to block alerts if when it checks the next time you have the same number of emails as when you clicked on the icon (i.e. I had eight emails, I clicked on the icon and deleted just the test message, I sent another test message, when it checked the next time I had eight emails so it didn't alert me). I tried a test and left the test message in the box and sent another so that I had nine emails and it did alert me.

Here is the dump output that I received:
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).
GMail Notifier: Alert Clickback called.
GMail Notifier: Notification Window is: (undefined).

One entry pair for each time I clicked on the notifier.

My OS Microsoft Windows 2000 SP 4
Firefox 1.0 PR [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1]

Posted by: Brandan at October 15, 2004 7:20 AM

I can't even get it to log into my gmail account.

Posted by: alanjstr at October 15, 2004 6:06 PM

Ok, i wiped out the remembered info from Privacy, and then it worked.

Posted by: alanjstr at October 15, 2004 6:07 PM

I have the same console output like Brandan's.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Another question, can it run on Mozilla 1.8a?

Posted by: Goncha at October 17, 2004 7:59 PM

The "Logging in..." suspend on Mozilla 1.8a5 :(
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041003

Posted by: goncha at October 18, 2004 8:43 AM

It works! Thanks.

Posted by: Lenny Cooper at October 23, 2004 10:44 AM

Hello!

may I ask you about add the Login/Cancel buttons to localizable strings?
Also the unable to login msg IMO should be splitted into two lines, because it destroys the look of the login window.

Posted by: Jakub Klawiter at October 25, 2004 8:27 AM

It works fine for me as well.

Posted by: Postino at October 28, 2004 9:31 PM