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20041130 Tuesday November 30, 2004

When GMail and Firefox Suck For the most part, both GMail and Firefox rock. However, when you're typing a long e-mail in GMail and you hit Ctrl+R instead of Ctrl+T, it really sucks. Rather than opening a new tab, I lost my whole e-mail message. Damn. Maybe it's time to go back to the desktop client. I've lost a few e-mails with GMail, but I don't think I've ever lost one with Outlook or Thunderbird. I guess it's time to setup GMail's POP3 access. Posted in The Web at Nov 30 2004, 02:08:11 PM MST 7 Comments

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Not a real solution to this problem, but you might want to use the Scribe extension. It lets you save and restore form fields.

Posted by Adam Fields on December 01, 2004 at 01:03 AM MST #

Gmail, not only provides pop3 access but also smtp. And when you send a mail with gmail smtp you will find it in the sent mail folder of your gmail account with conversation feature and all! Desktop client or webmail all your mail stay avaible online in one place. This is what I call a killer feature.

Posted by Aurélien on December 01, 2004 at 02:49 AM MST #

sorry...test???

Posted by ? on December 01, 2004 at 04:44 AM MST #

Matt, I think what you really want to look into is MozEx. I almost kicked myself for not trying it earlier. Instead of composing a message in the html textarea, you can spawn your editor of choice to edit the message. This way, while editing is taking place, you are "outside" of the browser context and therefore any movement between pages will not affect your work. It works for me.

Posted by Dan Allen on December 01, 2004 at 09:11 AM MST #

I think you really mean "When Web Apps Suck" since this problem isn't limited to GMail.

Posted by Craig on December 03, 2004 at 02:33 PM MST #

Good point Craig. IMO an easy solution would be to add an onunload handler to trap when folks open a new window and they're editing a textarea. Oh well, I guess the lesson is that e-mail clients are better as desktop apps. If only they had better spam filtering. I can't wait for GMail IMAP. ;-)

Posted by Matt Raible on December 04, 2004 at 12:34 AM MST #

[Trackback] Okay, so I've gotten my Firefox feed reading set up down to a science. I use the bookmarks pane on the left, multiple tabs on the right. One tab for gmail, one for MT, one for WebLogic Sever Console and the last for the app I'm working on. When I'm ski...

Posted by maps and legends on December 04, 2004 at 08:19 AM MST #

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