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[FINAL] Gmail: The App

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Gmail: The App

gmailhta.jpg

This is just a very simple HTA (HTML Application) I made. Put it in your QuickLaunch or desktop and you can launch Gmail at anytime. It's like launching a real app, like Outlook, only faster. You can download it here: gmail.hta or if you're want to play it safe and build one yourself, here's the code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 ?<head>
 ? ?<title>Gmail</title>
 ? ?<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
 ? ?<object id="pFileObject" classid="clsid:0D43FE01-F093-11CF-8940-00A0C9054228"></object>

 ? ?<hta:application id="oGmail" 
 ? ? ?applicationname="Gmail" 
 ? ? ?minimizebutton="yes"
 ? ? ?maximizebutton="yes"
 ? ? ?icon="http://gmail.google.com/favicon.ico" ?
 ? ? ?windowstate="normal" />
 ? ? ?
 ? ?<base target="contentframe" />

<style type="text/css">
<!-- 
html {
	overflow: hidden;
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

body {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

iframe {
	margin-left: 0px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	width:789px;
	height:551px;
	position:absolute;
	left:0px; 
	top:0px;

	overflow:hidden; 

	background-color: transparent;
}
-->
</style>
 ?</head>

 ?<body onload="window.resizeTo(800,580)" scroll="no">

<iframe style="z-index:0;" name="contentframe" id="contentframe" src="https://gmail.google.com/gmail" application="no" />

 ?</body>
</html>

Just copy and paste that code into Notepad, and save as gmail.hta, or whatever you'd like. As long as it has the .hta extension.

READ BEFORE USING: Because of IE's higher security in HTAs, you must set http://gmail.google.com/ as "Always Allow" in Internet Options Privacy tab (Sites button). Otherwise cookies won't work.

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Is there anyway I can get this app to load using FireFox browser. I disabled Internet Explorer completely by going to "Add/Remove Programs" and disabling is in the "Set Program Access and Defaults." It's still using Internet Explorer to load the Gmail app.

What can I do. I don't wanna' use IE! :(

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Is there anyway I can get this app to load using FireFox browser. I disabled Internet Explorer completely by going to "Add/Remove Programs" and disabling is in the "Set Program Access and Defaults." It's still using Internet Explorer to load the Gmail app.

What can I do. I don't wanna' use IE! :(

Just add a bookmark to gmail.com..how hard is that :p

Or create a shortcut to firefox to open gmail ( "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.gmail.com )

With firefox and cookies enabled it will take you straight to your inbox..well it does for me anyway.

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dmp3

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Just add a bookmark to gmail.com..how hard is that :p

Or create a shortcut to firefox to open gmail ( "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www.gmail.com )

With firefox and cookies enabled it will take you straight to your inbox..well it does for me anyway.

No, I like how the Gmail app works. It doesn't have any too bars, or menu bars, buttons, etc.

I want to use the Gmail app just like how it looks in IE, just using FireFox instead.

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Anyone figure out how to add the login and passwords to the app, so that if you have more than 1 gmail account, you can create more than 1 of these on your desktop, customized with the logins and passwords for each account? That way you can click on whichever one, without be prompted to enter it the login info.

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dmp3

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I disabled IE, but it still uses IE when I launch the Gmail program. Sorry, I gave up on the Gmail program and now use FireFox Extention: Gmail Notifier. The only problem with Gmail Notifier is that I have to login with my Gmail username/password everytime I want to use it. It doesn't log me in automatically. :crazy:

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Verbose.

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well verbose... even i have gone to an extent to stop IE being used anywhere... it sucks huge time

There's a regfile created by cpugeniusmv here that will associate many files with FF. If you change the firefox.exe path to longfilenames, links in Messenger will open with FF too.

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as for auto login am lookin at some stuff mainly the iframe for the login box if u set sent the valus there and make it auto submit on load like trillian did/does for msn it SHOULD work just would have to have the login box html on ur hd and redirect the app to that html instead of the site a theory if it works ill post a file :)

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