Gmail & Firefox


Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: Gmail & Firefox
started by: jshaw

Posted by jshaw on Feb. 07 2008,05:27
A quick trick to get Firefox to open Gmail in a new tab when you click an email address:

First copy and paste the following into beaver and save as /opt/gmailto.sh

Code Sample

#!/bin/sh
firefox -remote "openURL(http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto://'`,new-tab)"



Then open an xterm and type:

chmod 755 /opt/gmailto.sh

Then in Firefox, type about:config in the address bar and find the following line:

network.protocol-handler.app.mailto

Double click it and enter /opt/gmailto.sh

And that's it, just be sure to add opt/gmailto.sh to /opt/.filetool.lst

josh

Posted by lucky13 on Feb. 12 2008,02:58
I would change
Code Sample
http://mail.google.com

to
Code Sample
https://mail.google.com

but I don't care to transmit my passwords and cookies in plain text.

< http://lucky13linux.wordpress.com/2007....ing-101 >

edit: or just this link (from the above on)e for a description of how easy it is to capture cookies on a network...
< http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33207/108/ >

I also had a second entry related to this.
< http://lucky13linux.wordpress.com/2007/08/04/gmail-security-tips/ >

Why use http at all when sylpheed is excellent for gmail with either POP or IMAP, and using gmail via POP and IMAP requires connecting via SSL?

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