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For Google Chrome... Please!

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Sep. 11, 2008 - 1:41am - 1 year 356 days ago

I know it's early days, but Chrome works SO well with Google Apps (as much as I like Firefox).  The only significant missing component from Chrome from my point of view is HTML signatures.  And, as brilliantly useful as your Firefox add-in is, I and many others would no doubt end up going with whoever can supply a product for Chrome.

Last edited Sep. 11, 2008 - 2:43pm by Jerome
Sep. 11, 2008 - 2:43pm - 1 year 355 days ago

Er.... forgive me, but what is Chrome in this context? For me, that means the Firefox extension package, etc. If you give me some more details and some useful links, I will look into it.

Sep. 13, 2008 - 12:42pm - 1 year 354 days ago

Jerome:

I think what he's asking for (and what I was about to request) is that you create a version of BC Gmail Signatures that will work from Google's Chrome browser.

I'm a big fan of Firefox, but even version 3 has some huge problems with memory management. I understand that Chrome starts a new, seperate process for each tab (and each plugin, such as Flash). Therefore, when you close a tab, you automagically recover the memory used. In Firefox, even with only three or four tabs open, I routinely end up with a >150,000K footprint, and an inevitable system crash. If there's a way to make BC Gmail Sigs work in Chrome, I'd be one happy camper.

 

- captaindigital

Sep. 14, 2008 - 7:55pm - 1 year 352 days ago

Jerome - yes, I'm referring to Google's Chrome browser (thanks Brad!).  It integrates beautifully with Gmail / Google Apps and offers some great features that Firefox unfortunately doesn't - notably:

- adding attachments to email via drag-and-drop (versus ponderous navigating to the file path containing the desired attachment)

- application shortcuts, being a desktop shortcut to a full-screen version of a web-based application such as Gmail, Google Calendars etc

- very fast and stable AJAX processing

- separate system process for each tab (versus single process for entire application).

The more I use Chrome, the more I am of the view that these advantages are sufficiently compelling to think that a significant proportion of Gmail users will shift to Chrome.  I am not a developer and have no notion of what is involved in developing a Blank Canvas Signature version for Chrome.  But I would definitely buy an add-in that provided Blank Canvas Signature functionality in Chrome.

See http://www.google.com/chrome 

Last edited Sep. 14, 2008 - 7:56pm by Nick Allan
Sep. 14, 2008 - 8:16pm - 1 year 352 days ago

I would like to second Nick's emotion.   I've used the Google Chrome browser for a very short time, but I'm already falling in love with it.  Very clean interface, loads super fast, and (as has been mentioned) works so nicely with other google products.   If you could develop an HTML gmail signatures ap for "Chrome" it would be the best combo since peanut butter and jelly. 

Sep. 15, 2008 - 7:03am - 1 year 352 days ago

Thanks for providing the direct link. I will check this out and will see what would be involved in a conversion. It may be a little while before I can actually get it implemented, and given my schedule, it honestly may never happen. That said, I will certainly do what I can. Smile

Sep. 15, 2008 - 1:40pm - 1 year 352 days ago

I just finished taking a look at Google Chrome and it looks like there is as of yet absolutely no support for add-ons of any kind. I'll have to wait until it matures a little and they begin supporting add-ons.

Sep. 15, 2008 - 11:17pm - 1 year 351 days ago

... pretty much what I thought... thanks for looking into it Jerome, and hopefully it will be worth your while doing it when the time comes

Nov. 24, 2008 - 1:51pm - 1 year 281 days ago

I was just looking through the "Google Labs" tab in Chrome and there is a new funcitionality to add any "gadget" by url. I am not a code-writing expert, but wouldn't that be a sufficient window for BC to add Gmail Signatures??

Nov. 24, 2008 - 2:07pm - 1 year 281 days ago

By "gadget" they mean "little module that sits in the left sidebar of your google account" and not "full firefox extension", which is what Chrome would have to support in order for me to get it to work. I don't anticipate putting out a version for Google Chrome in the near future.

Dec. 05, 2008 - 9:04pm - 1 year 270 days ago

I recently read (but i do not remember the source i think it was Lifehacker) that Chrome is capable of running greasemonkey-like scripts with an external program. Since this addon used to be a greasemonkey script, i am sure it will be portable to Chrome somehow.

Dec. 08, 2008 - 6:04am - 1 year 268 days ago

Everything's portable, but it takes a lot of coding and time, so I probably won't personally be taking the time to make the conversion. I read that Chrome will soon be supporting Firefox extensions, so it may be a moot point.

Last edited Dec. 08, 2008 - 6:04am by Jerome
Dec. 12, 2008 - 9:39am - 1 year 264 days ago

I saw this agreed with it so much I thought that I may have started the thread.  HTML sigs is the only thing from preventing me from using Chrome exclusively (ok maybe adblock too, but that's kinda biting the hand that feeds google--at least chrome hides the pop up ads well).  I use Google Apps and have my business email hosted by Google, it's just not possible for me to use my email if I can't have a proper signature.  I guess I'll have to stick with FF3 for now.  Thanks for creating HTML sigs for FF!

Mar. 25, 2009 - 7:50am - 1 year 161 days ago

Google's Chrome browser is now supporting user scripts. Lifehacker has some details (http://lifehacker.com/5180010/enable-user-scripts-in-google-chrome). HTML signatures is the only, ONLY thing stopping me from using Chrome as my default browser. The Lifehacker guys were able to convert their Better GMail scripts fairly easily. Any chance you can test something with Blank Canvas?

Mar. 25, 2009 - 7:57pm - 1 year 160 days ago

Chrome only supports Greasemonkey style scripts and the add-on has evolved a good bit beyond that at this point. Converting Better Gmail 2 was probably easy because it's just a combination of Greasemonkey scripts to begin with. While I could possible down-engineer the add-on to be contained in a single script, I probably won't do so until the add-on scene matures for Chrome. Sorry all, but I just don't have the time for it, nor the real inclination given the (currently) relatively small user population for Chrome versus Firefox. Maybe some day.

In the meantime, you are welcome to use the old Greasemonkey version of my add-on if you can get it converted.

Old Greasemonkey Version

Jul. 20, 2009 - 5:09am - 1 year 44 days ago

Hi Jerome,


Has this moved on at all, we have been used Firefox and your signatures for some months but we are now forced to move to Google Chrome as Firefox is very slow when running Salesforce, our CRM solution.  We need your signatures though before we move across can you help ??

Thanks


Guy

Jan. 22, 2010 - 2:41am - 223 days ago

I am also very interested, as Google Chrome now has support for extensions, too.

Jan. 25, 2010 - 12:52pm - 220 days ago

Google Chrome now supports extensions (https://chrome.google.com/extensions) and from what I've heard the extnsion architecture is easier than Firefox's. Would absolutely love to see Blank Canvas on Chrome. Like several others on here, it is the only thing preventing me from ditching Firefox and switching over to Chrome full-time.

-sneaker

Feb. 09, 2010 - 9:12am - 205 days ago

Allthough I still use FF, I very often use Google Chrome browser (GCB). Especcially when FF is not open, and I want to have a quick view at some page. GCB, even in version 4.x, is blazing fast. And.... indeed, it now supports extentions. So, as soon as the most important add-on's I use have been ported from FF to GCB, I will definitly switch over completely.

So I subscribe to the post-start.

 

Ventiman

Feb. 11, 2010 - 3:30pm - 202 days ago

I will probably do a version for Chrome in the somewhat near(ish) future. No ETA yet though. As always, family and other responsibilities come first, so bear with me.

Feb. 17, 2010 - 5:51pm - 196 days ago

Give this a try freinds. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cmjcoiohflenpehfaalahocpmacjloof

I have just installed it, I will post back if it works like garbage.

Feb. 18, 2010 - 1:41pm - 195 days ago

Posted official announcement about chrome version here.

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