Nick Allan
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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 - 3:43pm by Jerome Dane
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Jerome Dane
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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.
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Brad Kozak
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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
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Nick Allan
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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 - 8:56pm by Nick Allan
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ScottB
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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.
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Jerome Dane
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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. 
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Jerome Dane
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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.
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Nick Allan
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... 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
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