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November 9, 2004

Livemarking your GMail Inbox

Go to Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks. Go to File -> New Live Bookmark, and for the feed url enter:

https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

The username:password idea came from Forever Geek.

Posted by doron at November 9, 2004 12:40 PM

Comments

Interesting, but it fails to load if you don't have any new messages. Another problem is that this doesn't notify you of new messages. And live bookmarks in Firefox don't seem to be updated very fast.

(BTW, Is there a way i can change the update interval?)

I'll stick with using the Gmail notifier extension.

Posted by: ElevationNL at November 9, 2004 1:06 PM

Doesn't that have the risk you'll give away you're username / password via HTTP_REFERRER, when following links?

Posted by: Harry Fuecks at November 9, 2004 1:13 PM

Good idea but I like to use the feed combined with GMail notifier extension to avoid security problems with the passwor: When the notifier says that there's a new mail I check the livebookmark to see if it's an interesting one ^__^

(BTW, are you planning on using that feed for future Notifier versions? Dunno, oneMouseOver the icon it shows the last unread messages, or something like this)

Posted by: PauTo at November 9, 2004 2:05 PM

> Doesn't that have the risk you'll give away you're > username / password via HTTP_REFERRER, when
> following links?

Mozilla strips the username and password from any URL before sending it as a referrer.

Posted by: Darin Fisher at November 9, 2004 4:48 PM

Hem, even if Moz ifs stripping the USR:PWD, there is a big security problem : the identifiant:password is in CLEAR in the bookmarks.html file. Very dangerous, especially under Windows :(

Posted by: Da Scritch at November 10, 2004 5:06 AM

I would rather go to https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom and store the password in the password manager. This should be enough for the Live Bookmarks, at least I hope so...

Posted by: Wladimir Palant at November 10, 2004 5:54 AM