Saturday, February 28, 2009

Gmail Manager for Firefox - Yay!

Google Fodder: I have several Gmail accounts. My personal one. My blog one. Then one for each of the projects I'm working on, consistent with their profiles and identities. Plus a few legacy ones from past projects that require occasional attention.

That has usually meant I needed to install and use several browsers: Opera, Seamonkey, Konqueror.....anything to make handling the multiple accounts easier, given you can only log into gmail (or Blogspot, or Analytics) once in each browser.

What I would like to do is handle it all in one browser. Gmail Manager for Firefox comes very close to doing that. Though you can't login to many at the same time, you can flick between them so quickly it amounts to almost the same thing.

You do have to get used to FIRST right-clicking on GM for Ff's 'bar' at bottom right to select the login you want, THEN left-click on the bar to open a new tab for the one you selected. When done, close the tab and repeat the two-click process to move to the next login. Still serial, but a lot faster. While logged into a particular account, you can them open any corresponding blogspot.com pages and sign-in with one click.

Well worth a try-out.
Posted by Steve Withers at 1:53 AM
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 01, 2009 8:41 PM

    Just use Thunderbird with all the different accounts or get gmail to forward each account to one single account - you can then use multiple identities in thunderbird if you need to answer as a particular user (look out for the replying from field in your mail though if you want to be anonymous)

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  2. Steve WithersMarch 08, 2009 12:14 AM

    Thanks, Bill. I'm pretty much a webmail guy these days. I'm too often not at "my" PC and webmail became the only way to go.

    I could set up Gmail to respond to mail according to the email address mail to me was sent to.....

    The problem is I have several blogspot and other google services, each under it's own ID. If I'm in Login A and want to access Blogspot B, logging into Blogspot B knocks me out of Gmail Login A. Each identity is linked to its complement of Google serivces.

    So Gmail manager lets me quickly flick between those identities....including the email.

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