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April 17, 2006

Search Gmail In Your Browser

Search Gmail in Firefox
Go to this site and install Gmail Search.

Search Gmail in Internet Explorer
Download the new Google Toolbar 4.

Search Gmail in Opera
Go to Help/About Opera, copy the folder location for "Opera Profile", open it. Edit search.ini, go to one of the entries [Search Engine n] (for example, [Search Engine 2]) and replace the first two lines with:
Name=Gmail
URL=http://mail.google.com/mail/?search=query&view=tl&start=0&init=1&fs=1&q=%s

More about Gmail:
Gmail Chat in Opera
Switch from Yahoo Mail / Hotmail to Gmail
5 fast ways to check your Gmail account
Marissa Mayer, Google VP, prefers Pine to Gmail

1 comment:

  1. Believe it or not, It is super useful. (Thanks)
    Imagine you are working in Opera desktop browser, need to find a gmail message & you can do the above without the need to open Chrome or Firefox to your own gmail inbox

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