Gmail - The Missing Features
– posted September 4th, 2007 by Des Traynor Comments (70)
Everyone loves GMail. Well everyone except maybe the guys at Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail Windows Live Email Experience. Previously I wrote a short post explaining one reason why GMail is that much better than its two competitors; It shows users the things they want to see.
On my own blog recently, I made the satanic suggestion that Mozilla Firefox could be improved. Over a thousand people took time out of their day to explain how wrong I was, either by comments (on my blog, digg, reddit, or other peoples blogs), or by sending me angry emails. The jist of most of the feedback was simply “Firefox is good enough, you don’t need these extras, you can achieve it through plugins”. As I said in my follow up post…
If you stop developing your product once it’s good enough, you’re leaving a big sign above your head saying “Free market Space! Insert better product here”.
It’s easy to pick out atrocious applications and find ways to improve them. It’s a lot harder to fine tune applications that are already high quality. That’s what we’re trying to do here. What little things would make GMail work better for you?
Starting from the top
Google knows damn well I don’t use Photos, Web, Groups, or Documents when I’m logged in under my personal account. However, I use Google Reader almost every time I log in, but it’s hidden away in the middle of a dropdown that includes 14 other obscure services. The other service I use (and love) is Google Analytics, and that one doesn’t even make it to the party! Why can’t the title bar offer me the services I use most often?
Account Settings
A lot of people I know keep two or more GMail accounts, I keep three. One for me, one for my work(iQ), and one for Bigulo stuff. I would kill for the ability to tell Google that I own these three accounts, and for a nice little dropdown to switch from account to account. It’d be nice to remove the excise of the lengthy log out log in process.
Filters for your mail
One thing that Thunderbird, Outlook, Evolution etc. have that GMail is lacking is the ability to create intelligent contextual filters. If I’m reading a mail from news@ixda.org, and I click “Create a Filter”, it should give me a few intelligent options as opposed to ten form inputs laid out like they dropped out of someones pocket.
Calendar
If I send an email to Lar saying “Meeting with $client in Morgan Hotel at 7pm on 8/10/2007″ why can’t the same magic that works in Google Calendar kick in, highlighting the even, asking which calendar I want to add it to?
Update: I’ve heard this one is on the way, in fact Lar says he’s seen it already. It didn’t happen while I was creating this mockup anyway.
Attachments
Have you ever sent an email but forgot to add the attachment? Of course you have!
Wouldn’t it be nice if Google could warn you what you’re about to do? If I use the phrase “Please find attached”, or “I’ve attached” , or “is attached” in the content of my portion of the mail, I’d love it if this happened…
Speaking of attachments, does that long blue bar that reads “View as HTML Open as a Google document Download” annoy anyone else? There is no visual distinction between three very different actions, I’ve clicked the wrong one more than once and brought my browser to a halt as Google Documents tries to interpret a 140 page word document. Something as simple as a gray bar would help here. This really is designed by a programmer …
Please understand the images used here were all created in about 5 minutes using Paint, Gimp, or Visio. They represent the feature I want, not the way I want it to look.
I am married to GMail at this point, I can’t see myself using any other mail client for the foreseeable future. If it sounds like I am criticizing it, I really am not. Behind every great application are users pushing it to be just that little bit better, and that’s all I’m trying to do here.
Your turn
It’s easy to criticize my suggestions as things that “you don’t want/need/write plugins for”, so instead try coming up with your own. Post them here, or blog them and link back here. Or mail them to me, and I’ll add them here.
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70 comments so far
1. ghettoimp on Sep 4th, 2007 - 18:34
Nice suggestions.
I’d also like an option to view my messages in a fixed-width font (I have to use some godawful greasemonkey script or something to do it right now), and a way to choose the size of the text box.
2. Florian Potschka on Sep 4th, 2007 - 18:36
The thing that annoys me most is that you cannot log in to more than one gmail-account at the same time. I think this is caused by some strange cookies or the like.
3. Paul Mara on Sep 4th, 2007 - 19:13
Wow, I honestly had thought google were trying to order the services at the top based on how I use them.
Another good one would be to allow you to customise the top menu. I don’t use groups a lot but I’d say if it I could have it in my face up their, then I might.
Another calender feature might simply be to have an “add an event” in the drop down that comes from the arrow beside the reply button.
Florian Potschka, you probably can’t login to more than one gmail-account at the same time because they probably only designed it for one account per person. You can certainly log in to custom google accounts at the same time. In the past, I’ve been logged into my gmail, college gmail and hosted gmail at the same time.
4. Laurence Veale on Sep 4th, 2007 - 19:13
Des,
great post. I think the Gmail and Calendar integration works when you have your language set to US English with your Google account settings.
I also really like the UPS integration where Gmail recognises a UPS tracking code and produces a link that’s one click away from the dispatch and delivery page on the UPS site.
I don’t think it works for DHL or FedEx, though
5. David Barrett on Sep 4th, 2007 - 20:29
Des: Hopefully you don’t get much stick for using Safari in your screenshots
Personally, I’d like it if GMail allowed you to filter out GTalk chats from your search results.
Lar: It definitely works for DHL tracking numbers, or at least did for me.
6. Kevin Cannon on Sep 4th, 2007 - 21:15
I think some of the features you’re suggesting could be very useful to you specifically, but might not be useful to a mass audience. (e.g. The attachment thing might be useful for a professional web designers, but might be a hindrance for a children’s therapist)
I generally suggest the use of IMAP mail over gmail as you get most of the features of gmail, with many more advantages.
Also, along those lines, I found an extension for Thunderbird & mail.app that does the attachment reminder thing.
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/.....xtensions/
7. Kevin Cannon on Sep 4th, 2007 - 21:17
Oh - I just had a thought that maybe Greasemonkey could do some of these things for you, while you’re waiting for Google to implement them.
http://lifehacker.com/software.....180839.php
8. Des Traynor on Sep 4th, 2007 - 21:35
They represent the feature I want, not the way I want it to look, so yes they are of use to me specifically.
That said, the Attachment feature contains a link to turn the check off (see the large image), so it would only annoy this therapist once.
9. Des Traynor on Sep 4th, 2007 - 21:38
Lar,
Someone mailed me a screenshot so I can see that it does work, just not for me seemingly.
Clever trick by Google by to frequently put useful material in the sidebar, so that you will occasionally look at ads. Ideally this information would be in context though
10. Nigel Hanlon on Sep 4th, 2007 - 22:11
At this stage I’m pretty much married to GMail aswell. Besides the great features you suggested, I would also love to see the GMail search function improved. While it does support handy commands like from:contact_name, I would like to be able to use some of the other commands available in the normal Google Search. Features such as intext:, or if I’m looking for a certain attachment the filetype: command would be very useful. On the other hand, GMail is as good as webmail gets and checking it each day has become more of a religion than a task.
11. DGY on Sep 4th, 2007 - 22:24
The attachment reminder would be a funny thing, but don’t forget the non-English speaking part of the world, and don’t forget the damning because of the fals alarm of the reminder.
Switching between accounts is easy with the Gmail Notifier extension, if you use Firefox or Flock. You can configure multiple accounts, and switch with a click on a popup menu.
12. Des Traynor on Sep 4th, 2007 - 22:28
DGY,
Obviously it would have to be localised before launch, and the reminder is something that Google can fine tune while in Beta, and something that users can just switch off if they don’t like it.
GMail notifier sounds useful, I might make that Firefox extension #44 to be installed.
13. Jason on Sep 4th, 2007 - 22:29
Speaking of unnecessary excise, where are the blog posts you’re referring “on your own blog”.
J
14. Des Traynor on Sep 4th, 2007 - 22:33
Sorry J, I forgot to add those links
The posts are at
http://destraynor.com/serendipity/
15. Katie on Sep 5th, 2007 - 01:21
YOU FORGOT FUZZY SEARCH !!!!!
jesus christ, google. You think that would be feature #2 after search in mail.
16. Ryan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 02:01
Here’s how you add someone to your address book in GMail, assuming they have emailed you before:
-Search for the person by name
-In search results, click on the conversation
-In conversation, click on “Show Details” next to person’s name
-Highlight person’s email address with your mouse
-Copy, using context menu, keyboard shortcut or Edit menu.
-Click Contacts in left navbar
-Click Create Contact
-Past person’s email address into appropriate field
-Remember exact spelling of person’s name and type it into Name field (OR, create new tab, click GMail bookmark, wait for GMail to load, search for person by name, click into conversation, select person’s name, copy, click over to original tab, paste into name field)
-Click ‘Save’
How hard would it be to add an “Add to address book” link somewhere on each email or conversation?
Or to autocomplete the To: field in new email addresses based not just on emails sent but also emails received?
Or to offer a “new email to this person” in addition to reply?
GMail makes it easy to reply to mail, or to write a new email to someone you have written before. But it’s hard to write new email to someone who has emailed you previously, or to add someone to your address book.
17. Ryan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 02:04
Support multiple signatures.
Support making the signature(s) OFF by default (but available from a pulldown menu or link).
18. Ryan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 02:11
Configurable SMTP server for alternate From: addresses.
Here’s what I mean:
As everyone knows by now, GMail allows you to change the From: field.
Even better, the premium Google Apps For Your Domain allows you to not only change the From: field but also, in the case of your domain, omit certain headers that cause Outlook to display your mail as “Sent by crazydude203@gmail.com on behalf of seriousdude@seriousdude.com.”
But what BOTH would benefit from is the ability to optionally associate each alternate From: addresses with a non Google SMTP server. So for example if you want to send work email from GMail, just plug your work SMTP settings into GMail, and every time you use your work From: address, GMail will send using your work SMTP servers (just like a desktop email client would), thus avoiding the stupid “on behalf of” header.
19. Ryan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 02:17
Make the filters not so incredibly retarded.
For example, you can create a filter that searches based on what is in the To: field. So for example I have crap@ryantate.com sent to the trash by default.
Now if someone puts crap@ryantate.com in the Cc: field instead of the To: field, the filter is too dumb to pick it up.
To fix this they should replace the To: field in the filter creator with a Sent to: field that scours the email to figure out what email address it was sent to.
Also, there should be a way to search the headers. There was a national database/email marketing firm that recently decided to erroneously list me as a national retail journalist. I got tons of terrible, irrelevant email, almost always sent through their servers. But there was no way to filter it in GMail — I could search the body of the From:, but not the headers.
20. Ryan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 02:30
Not only will I see your complaint about “View as HTML,” “Open as Google Doc” etc and raise you this:
Don’t ask me if I want you to try to render the attachment as HTML. If you can render the attachment as HTML, then why haven’t you *just rendered it as HTML already, and shut up?*
In other words, if Google knows how to render something as HTML, have it pre-rendered and displayed when I open the message. Put a divider line between the attachment and the rest of the message, obviously, but Just Do It. If it looks screwy, I can click “Converted from Word format: Download original / Open in Google Docs”.
PS Sorry for the many posts, I have the premium apps/for your domain version of GMail and have been sending these suggestions to Google through their GMail suggestion page for months. They never write back.
21. Ryan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 02:42
Allow me to forward a message from the list view. It’s stupid that I have to re-open the message and click Forward.
It’s also different from how every other email program ever works.
I realize that what I see in the list view is technically conversations, not messages. However, the vast majority, and especially the vast majority of the ones I forward, are individual messages with no other messages in the “conversation.”
In the case that I do try to forward a conversation from list view, just forward the whole damn conversation. There’s going to be a message-level view anyway, where I have to actually type in the recipients and click “send,” so I’ll have a chance to review what I’m sending and change my mind. You could even put up a little notice at the top of the page that says “Warning: forwarding 10 messages in conversation” or somesuch.
PS I agree with all of you ideas emphatically, except for the Attachment thing, which is kind of insane, as much as I see where you’re coming from ;->
22. Rob on Sep 5th, 2007 - 03:33
You can link several email accounts to a master account.
Go to Setting->Accounts->Get Mail from Other Accounts.
This feature even shows your mail from other accounts with the other account email in the subject line so that you can separate the different accounts while in a single login. It also lets you reply to emails from the email the original was sent to, or from a default email address.
23. Super Mike on Sep 5th, 2007 - 04:47
How about the fact that I can’t include a signature that contains bolding, coloring, italics, or hyperlinks?
Or the ability to choose from a list of signatures per the mood I’m in?
And why when I add a label tag for Jobs it starts tagging my friend’s stuff and doesn’t seem to learn it’s not Jobs when I keep untagging the labels from it?
Folders and mail rules for them would be nice, as well.
24. Gmail Fan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 05:18
I use google apps to manage the mail for my domain
I hate that I can’t be logged into that account and access google reader - i need to log in again with an @gmail account - nonsense…
25. tim on Sep 5th, 2007 - 05:38
If I go to “https://gmail.com” (because I’m too lazy to type “mail.google.com”, I get warnings about the certificate being for the wrong site. Can’t Google afford a second certificate? WTF?
26. F on Sep 5th, 2007 - 05:46
I’d like different signatures for my different “from” email addresses (school, personal, etc).
27. Doug L. on Sep 5th, 2007 - 06:32
A maximize button in the “Compose mail” text box. I have a nice, large monitor, and a nice, large browser window. Once I am composing my message, LET ME USE THAT NICE LARGE WINDOW dammit! IMHO, *EVERY* text input box on the web could use this (including, of course, this very comment entry box — which is about 1.5 by four inches, sitting in a browser window that’s about ten by 13 inches, on a screen that’s about 12 by 15. Not that I’m counting … )
, A toggle box in *EVERY* text input box, A toggle box in *EVERY* text input box,
28. Shalmanese on Sep 5th, 2007 - 07:31
Being able to see, and sort by size.
29. anonymous on Sep 5th, 2007 - 07:42
#1) sort by name/date/size
#2) tagged emails disppear from inbox
30. James on Sep 5th, 2007 - 08:08
#1) improve email address autocomplete
#2) simplify adding contacts to address book
#3) add archive function to iGoogle’s gmail gadget
#4) better attachment searches
Gmail rocks!
31. Rohit on Sep 5th, 2007 - 10:01
I’d love for them to just come up with the ability to write emails in something other than plain text. I want to be able to cut paste formatting from word doc - gmail - word doc
32. LiNee on Sep 5th, 2007 - 10:44
Sorting!!
33. Mungo on Sep 5th, 2007 - 12:41
I wish the navigation bar menu:
Mail Calendar Documents Photos Groups Web more \/
would not spawn a new window when I select an item, but rather swap out the existing window. I wish that the services were better integrated, so if I switched from gmail to gcalendar, it would remember the state of my e-mail.
Mungo Says Google is the Best
34. Shano on Sep 5th, 2007 - 12:44
I want a filter that will automatically mark certain mails as read
35. Ian on Sep 5th, 2007 - 12:47
Threading. Yes, Gmail has conversations, based on a subject line match, which sometimes works. But for a long, long while, we’ve had In-Reply-To: headers in email that say what someone’s replying to, even when they change the subject of the email. Since they like pushing open standards, why can’t they respect an email one that’s been around for 20 years plus? This one drives me spare with mailing lists…
36. LS on Sep 5th, 2007 - 13:16
You know, using labels and multiple address support, you can pretty much run as many gmail accounts as you want - opaquely - from a single account. Just forward all your mail to one account and tell it to automatically reply with the address an e-mail was sent to.
37. Support Israel on Sep 5th, 2007 - 13:17
More important ideas:
a. I don’t want to download movie files and open media player. Let me watch the movies inside gmail with YouTube-like interface!
b. Never need to delete emails? yeah, right. that’s why yahoo gives unlimited storage. At least let me search by attachment size! or substract from my usage size the duplicated movies/ppt files everyones sends over and over. (I KNOW YOU DON’T STORE ANY ATTACHMENT TWICE SO WHY DO YOU “CHARGE” MY ACCOUNT FOR THEM TWICE???)
38. John I on Sep 5th, 2007 - 13:18
Am I the only one annoyed that Gmail, when loading on a background tab, will force its tab to the front when you’re in the middle of doing something else on another tab? I use it in “/h/” mode so it doesn’t do this. Safari btw.
-J
39. Igor on Sep 5th, 2007 - 13:32
I agree with ghettoimp (fist post) about fixed font for mail.
Another issue that’s killing me is the messages that are not indented in thread view as mutt or thunderbird do. You never know visually who responded to what.
40. David on Sep 5th, 2007 - 13:43
Why don’t they just block spam entirely? As in not even let it reach your spam folder, just block it forcing a delivery-failed notification to bounce back.
41. LordFoom on Sep 5th, 2007 - 13:48
I hate the fact that I can’t open emails in new tabs, or any of the links. Also if you open a mail via the google talk client, and you click on the “inbox” option, it opens a new window, giving me a tab EXACTLY when I don’t want it.
42. a traveller... on Sep 5th, 2007 - 14:15
It’s like you read my mind while writing about the top bar.
One problem I have with gmail is that I do wish my signature would show up where my message ends, as opposed to right at the bottom of the mail, after all the previous messages!!!
43. Jim Menard on Sep 5th, 2007 - 14:27
I’d like a keyboard shortcut for the “delete” function. I don’t care that Google wants me to keep everything, I want to throw away emails that I’ll never need or read again.
44. Nahuel on Sep 5th, 2007 - 15:06
What gmail needs most: IMAP
45. asdf on Sep 5th, 2007 - 15:17
We need sort/search by message size!
Otherwise, there is no easy way to reclaim space.
I do tech support for a few older family members, and have had to abandon + create new accounts because of reaching storage quota.
Perhaps google is deliberately withholding an easy way to reclaim space so that you have to give them $$.
46. Kaessa on Sep 5th, 2007 - 15:27
I use Gmail to check mail from several pop3 accounts. I would love a way to set the amount of time between checks, or a “Send/Receive” type button so I could manually check them.
47. M L on Sep 5th, 2007 - 15:38
I love gmail too but the #1 feature problem for me is a very sinister and simple one. Sometimes it just doesn’t receive mails from certain people!
There are some people who send me e-mails and they will never appear in my gmail, they are not in spam, they are not filtered, they just don’t appear. It is rare but has happened more than once with very important e-mails. Very frustrating! Never had this problem with Yahoo.
Plus gmail has lots of problems with iPhone that Yahoo does not, but I guess I can’t blame them for that, unless it is intentional as they are apparently planning a gPhone.
48. Laurence Veale on Sep 5th, 2007 - 15:42
@Kaessa - I agree with you wholeheartedly, I find it quite frustrating going into Settings and clicking “Check now” for my POP access to another account.
Perhaps that button should come out into the main screen somewhere.
@Des Good work for starting this thread. We’re doing free user research for Google!
49. Jean Naimard on Sep 5th, 2007 - 16:24
About the multi-account pop-down.
It already exists; it’s called “Gmail Manager� (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1320) and it displays on your status bar how many messages you got in your gmail account. You can select which account you want to check and log-iin there in a jiffy.
50. Ruairi Galavan on Sep 5th, 2007 - 16:29
Great post Des. Well done. You should be very proud
51. Evgeny on Sep 5th, 2007 - 17:44
And there is NO WAY to get rid of that “Invite a friend” thing. Because as soon as you spend it all, you get 50 new ones the day after.
52. AJ on Sep 5th, 2007 - 17:59
I’ll second David’s suggestion - it is very annoying to see gTalk chats show up in search results when I very well know what I’m looking for is an email.
I have considered disabling logging of those chats, but never did for emergencies (already happened a couple of times).
53. R.Bot on Sep 5th, 2007 - 19:12
They really need to spiffy up the Contacts section. Has anyone ever tried exporting contacts out of GMAIL? It’s messy.
The fact that they don’t break out the (physical) address into separate fields should be a crime.
54. Ilkka on Sep 5th, 2007 - 19:29
Filter for marking a mail “not spam” (whitelisting by sender).
I get email notifications from my blog software, which are mostly undetected spam comments, which I have to mark as spam by hand. GMail automatically puts them to the Spam folder (of course), so I might not ever notice them.
55. Kevin on Sep 6th, 2007 - 02:40
Ryan (#16) — there *is* an “add to contacts” button but it’s ridiculously well hidden. Look at the “Reply” button at the top right beside “show details”. There’s a drop-down menu beside it (the arrow) with a few useful functions that nobody will ever find!
Beats me why they hid this up there instead of beside the reply button at the bottom of the message. In fact there’s plenty of room to move all of the commands in that drop-down menu (or at least print and “add to contacts”) onto that bottom line instead of hiding them.
Another thing about that line: Could we get rid of “Invite to Gmail” please? I think the exclusivity/cachet has worn off and it’s just irritating now.
56. Alpha Centauri on Sep 6th, 2007 - 09:12
I use the + field a lot. For eg I might say my email address is alpha.centauri+futureshop@gmail.com. I also have several accounts linked to my master account or forwarding to it.
Regardless of who the mail was sent to gmail, when I reply gmail sets the sender to alpha.centauri@gmail.com - which I can optionally manually change to one of a list of known ids.
I would love it if instead gmail were to default to using as the sender the id to which the mail was addressed. eg alpha.centauri+futureshop@gmail.com if that’s who the email was addressed to, or alhpa.centauri@hotmail.com if that’s who it was addressed to and it was in my approved list of accounts.
57. MOE on Sep 7th, 2007 - 13:32
GMAIL needs a ‘read receipt’ option.
58. Thomas Suckow on Sep 7th, 2007 - 21:01
Be able to split conversations. It assumes that because it has the same subject it is the same.
59. Ryan on Sep 7th, 2007 - 21:56
Kevin:
Awesome awesome, thank you!
You know why it’s especially hard to see that dropdown? It is composed of a couple of images that, at least on my relatively speedy computer+Internet, are the absolute last things on the page to load. I just started at a two message conversation for literally like 10 seconds before the arrow and gray background suddenly loaded. A simple text link that said “More” would do the trick (next to the arrow).
Thanks though! At least I know how.
60. Nathan on Sep 8th, 2007 - 19:37
I send and receive photos all the time. What I miss is a button like “Open in google documents”, but for pictures: “open in google photos/picasaweb”
61. engtech on Sep 10th, 2007 - 00:28
You can link multiple Gmail accounts together so you receive email all at one account, and can send from any other account:
http://internetducttape.com/20.....ward-link/
But the solution I like better is using multiple Firefox profiles for the different contexts I use.
62. volcimaster on Sep 10th, 2007 - 19:58
I’d like to be able to delete *1* message from a conversation thread.
Also, I’d point most of you to the ‘Help’ section of GMail that shows you how to search by date, size, etc.
63. Mark on Sep 12th, 2007 - 10:06
For me - I want a switch to turn off the conversation view. I despise it!
I found a google suggestion page:
https://services.google.com/inquiry/gmail_suggest/
There is a tick box for the ability to switch off conversations. Plus any other suggestions such as the excellent ones above.
Maybe if enough of us do it they will listen!
64. matt on Sep 13th, 2007 - 17:44
The points made about improving the gmail experience are good ones, and I hope google considers them seriously. However the biggest consistent annoyance I have with gmail is speed. When first logging in, it’s just too darn slow. That initial 5 to 15 seconds is looong, and there’s nothing to do while you wait, except perhaps switch to another application and do something else. In other words, don’t do what you’ve just decided you want to do.
Yes I understand this is an in-built difficulty because gmail is a _web_ application. Nevertheless it is a consistent everyday experience that makes me always ask “do I really want to do that right now?”, and often the answer is “No, it’s not worth the annoyance. Maybe later when I have more than 1 message to read/write.”
Sometimes I think what I really want is a dedicated portableapps.com style gmail reader.
65. Neil Turner on Sep 14th, 2007 - 15:59
Yep - Multiple gmail account under one roof would be great. I’ve got about 6 in total both personal and business - so it would save me a huge amount of time.
66. Adam Tsiopani on Oct 17th, 2007 - 12:38
Hi Des,
Long time no see, since the Maynooth lectures you gave me - glad to see things are working out for you.
I agree with all the features you suggest, simple yet elegant improvements. Just a quickie with regards to the multiple accounts tool you mentioned - while you wait for this to (hopefully) be developed, did you know you can be signed into 2 accounts simultaneously if you use 2 browsers? I always use Firefox for my “Main account” and have an IE window minimised with my “secondary account” for easy switching between the two.
I haven’t tested this, but I imagine if you also install Opera, you should be able to log into all 3. I imagine you already have all 3 installed due to the nature of your job too!
Cheers,
– Adam.
67. Vlad Babii on Oct 18th, 2007 - 13:09
You can have more than one firefox opened at the same time (i use one for personal use, one for my office and one for development - when needed). All you need is separate profiles and start with
start C:\Mozilla\firefox.exe -profile C:\profiles\profile.folder
I use google browser sync for each profile and it works very well. I can move from my desktop to my laptop with almost no fuss (cookies, bookmarks and other stuff is synchronized automatically)
As for gmail… i love it! Id like a software-based solution that would sync to the mail servers and keep a local copy of things for off-line reading.
68. William Light on Oct 26th, 2007 - 08:20
good post. i really like the attachment configuration this is greatly helpful for me because i will do this mistake some time when i send email attaching some files. i do have three Email account in yahoo, google and Rediffmail. but i like to use yahoo and google to the most.
69. amg lite on Feb 22nd, 2008 - 17:44
Hi William Light
is no very good!!!!
70. Marian Minerd on Sep 1st, 2008 - 15:28
FORWARD is missing from my email. I can’t forward anything or open mail since you added that tool bar on the side. Need help. Marian Minerd