A browser just for Gmail

Does anybody know whether there is an application like NetJaxer (http://www.netjaxer.com) available for Mac OS X?

#20: "Have you tried Mail Tags and Mail Act-On for Mail.app?"

Certainly, I think those are fantastic plugins for Mail. I actually think it's strange the software makers haven't started incorporating the tagging paradigm into more applications. Can you imagine how much cooler iPhoto would be if you could easily tag your photos instead of using clunky keywords?

But Mail has still just been too flaky for me. I've spent a lot of time reading forum posts and googling for support techniques, like optimizing databases and all that good stuff. Still, a few weeks later, maybe a month, and Mail starts misbehaving, messages begin disappearing, etc.

With the Greasemonkey scripts I mentioned in my post though, Gmail still just works out a lot better for me. I can tag and move messages with simple keyboard shortcuts - no mouse necessary. That's a dream come true in my book.

> that's how my Camino is already setup.

Ditto, only with multiple tabs for Gmail, Google Calendar and a local page that displays my todo lists and notes.

> Those are SOOO easy to make, it is unbelievable.

See 'MyOneLineOfCodeBrowser using Cocoa and WebKit' for details:

http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000077.php

Have you tried Mail Tags and Mail Act-On for Mail.app?

1) Open a new window in firefox
2) Load GMail in it
3) Hit View - Status Bar to hide the status bar
4) Hit View - Toolbars - Navigation Toolbar
5) Hit View - Toolbars - Bookmarks Toolbar

6) Enjoy your GMail window
7) Send e-mail to friends about it
8) Hit refresh
9) ...
10) Profit!

Johnny: Mail.app has a View > Organize by Thread option.

The only problem with this approach (and I understand why it can't be perfect) is that the only way Mail.app has to group messages is by their subject. I happen to have a lot of unrelated "Hi" and "Hey" and "Hello" and "Thoughts" personal emails that are mostly unrelated (and from different authors) and Mail.app groups them together incorrectly, while gmail via Safari keeps the right threads together.

Apart from that I absolutely love Mail.app though, and the ability to access email while away from the web (coming from a mobile user, as hotspots aren't exactly EVERYWHERE yet...) is killer, and gmail will never be able to offer that. Need I say Smart Mailboxes???

Thunderbird is now Universal Binary, forget about Mail.app, imcompatible issues, stability issues, pure junk.

While I'm glad that many people seem to be satisfied with Mail.app, many are not (check out the Apple support forum for Mail sometime!) This dedicated browser is great as far as I'm concerned. It takes up less resources than Mail or a 'full' browser, like Camino, but gives you what you need for using Gmail.

Arguing about what mail program you like better is probably pointless. But if you prefer Gmail, this is a great way to access it.

I guess I can see using a browser dedicated to Gmail if you're not going to use Mail.app and you don't want email interfering with your web browser. Seems a little weird, but certainly plausible and to each his own.

Why the harsh words on Mail, though? A 'gesture of...kicking [it] to the curb'? Certainly it's not because the Gmail interface is better looking than Mail's. Also, I love how Macs are so easy to use. Not the picture I get when thinking about switching to Firefox, adding Greasemonkey scripts, and memorizing new keystrokes just so I can 'rival even desktop email app functionality' (like the kind I already enjoy with Mail).

There's only one thing that keeps me accessing Gmail from a browser most of the time, and that's Gmail's conversation feature that groups forwarded and replied-to emails together in one subject line. Hopefully, Leopard's iteration of Mail with have something like this. If it does, you'll need a lot more than a custom-made browser to get me to stop using Apple Mail.

I've been loving Mail.app... I didn't like it when I had Hotmail because it really didn't support it well, but now that I have a Gmail account (ok, a while ago), I've been using Mail.app because, frankly, I dislike the online Gmail interface. It's just not me. Also, I could give a crap about Gmail labels... and the calendar feature. I just see if I got new mail, have my lovely mail signatures, and use iCal (because I'm good like that... and I also keep my phone's calendar up-to-date...)

I haven't had any bugs except that I can't send mail using my personal webserver's pop account (it's an issue with my server, not mail.app).