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I'VE been a fan of Gmail of all time since Google launched the testing revision of its free of charge Web communication pay in 2004. At the time, Google created comparatively a stir by offer one g (GB) of keeping patch Microsoft was message a worthless 2 megabytes (MB) on Hotmail and Yahoo had a 6MB consideration on its purge e-mail pay. The two have since caught up, and Yahoo now offers infinite storage-but since I haven't travel walking to using up my 2.8 GB on Gmail in the ending two years, and I truly empathize the expertise to quickly hunt through all my e-mail, Yahoo's hottest change genuinely wasn't a big business to me.

Google has supplementary features to Gmail since it was introduced cardinal age ago, but many a much enhancements are free from third-party developers who have drawn-out its functionality by verbal creation add-ons to the Firefox browser.

To get these extensions in Firefox, go to the Tools bill of fare and go for Add-ons, next click on the Get Extensions relation on the spot on bottom corner of the pop-up window. This opens up the Mozilla Firefox Add-ons folio where you can hunting for the extensions you have need of. Once you brainwave them, click on the Install Now knob and Firefox will download and set up it, and formulate it reachable the subsequent occurrence you conflagration up the looker.

Here are both of the greatest Gmail extensions:

Better Gmail. Most extensions do only just one thing, but Better Gmail packs 25 new features into Google's message service, devising it a must-have part for all grave Gmail users. These features list the merging of Google Reader for RSS feeds; icons that bring up to date you at a peep the sort of file attached; a bar illustration of the storage outer space in use and remaining; a communication advertizement panel that can be treated by right-clicking an email entry; new consultation options; more than the ivories shortcuts; and skins that cash the way Gmail looks-including a really delicate imitation of the Mac electronic communication case. (Another extension, Gmail Skins, lets you opt for the color of your inbox, but I found it problematic.) A caveat: the version of Better Gmail on the Mozilla Add-ons piece of ground is old and does not have all the most up-to-date features. The newer edition (0.8) can be found on the Lifehacker site (just Google "Better Gmail").

Gmail Manager. Gmail Manager can apprize you of in e-mail in ternary Gmail acounts. Running the mouse indicator done the mail index at the bottom matched recess of the witness windowpane reveals ins and outs more or less the acount, plus uninformed messages, saved drafts, the amount of storage used, and snippets of any new message. As a bonus, you can besides use Gmail Manager to create correspondence to golf course on any Web leaf enlarge up a Gmail represent means. While this element is too on tap in Better Gmail, I like Gmail Manager's approach, because it premiere asks you which of duple accounts you'd like to use to move the electronic communication.

Gspace. This wait allows you to use your Gmail testimony to sales outlet files. After installation, a Gspace point appears in the Tools bill. Choosing it opens a tab that lets you log into your Gmail vindication and mimic files to and from it. This industrial plant close to Gmail Drive on Windows, gDisk on the Mac or GmailFS for Linux , but because it's browser-based, Gspace will practise on any of the 3 chopine.

E-mail this! Not all Web sites have a correlation that will change you to hurriedly electronic communication a page to a mortal. This extension, originally titled Gmail this! now supports Hotmail and Yahoo Mail too. Simply right-click on an futile point on a leaf and plump for E-mail This and determine which work you poverty to use. The hold opens up a new email style beside the contact pasted onto the the article of the electronic communication letter.

Even minus these enhancements, Gmail is an unmatched Web-based e-mail punter. With them installed, it's hard-boiled to lash.