Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog

Recently a comment was left on my Get Mail Extension stating the add-on was no longer on AMO (addons.mozilla.org) and provided a link to his Toolbar Buttons extension. Once installed and you restart Firefox (SunBird, Flock or Thunderbird) right-click on the toolbar and select ‘Customize…’ , you will discover a treasure trove of new toolbar buttons. Simply drag and drop the buttons to your toolbar. Important: be sure to click ‘Done’ when finished. If you click the X instead, your changes will not be saved. A couple buttons I found useful were Undo Close Tab and Check for Update (much quicker then going through the Tools menu).

The extension works with the following applications:

• Firefox 1.5 to 2.0
• Thunderbird 1.5 to 2.0
• Flock 0.4 to 1.5
• SunBird 0.3 to 0.4a1

Tip Source: Michael Buckley

I’ve received a couple e-mails concerning the link in the Get Mail Extension entry not working. After a little research I found out the extension was no longer on the main AMO (addons.mozilla.org) section or even in the sandbox. Further research via Google I found out the author’s site for Get Mail (he also did ChromEdit Plus) extensions.  From the Get Mail FAQs:

When AMO recently updated their site… It was MY personal decision to remove ALL of my extensions from AMO at this point in time.

All of his extensions are hosted on his webdesigns site. The link in the Get Mail Extension entry has been updated.