Browser Extension of the Week: Send to My Gmail

Posted 04/07/2011 at 11:42am | by Seamus Bellamy

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No matter whether working far from home or cozied up to your desktop PC, the ubiquitous nature of services like AOL Mail, GMX or Hotmail means that so long as you’ve got an internet connection, you’ll never be out of touch with  everyone you care about. Of the many webmail services available today, few are more popular than Google’s Gmail. Easy to use and boasting integration with Google’s full range of online offerings, Gmail is nothing but win. To harvest more of that winning Gmail feeling, we recommend taking a look at Send From My Gmail, our Extension of the Week.

Designed for use with Google Chrome (If you’re a Firefox user, we’ll show you how to rock similar features with Mozilla next week), Send to My Gmail is an extension designed to streamline the use of your Gmail account. After installing the extension, you’ll note that a Gmail logo has been added to the top right corner of your browser window.

Click the logo and the address of the page you’re currently viewing will automatically be inserted into a new message from your Gmail account; ready to share with your friends and family. The extension also sets Gmail as your default mail application when clicking mail links from inside of Chrome. For those of us who prefer to use Gmail’s browser interface over a dedicated mail client, this is a real time and sanity saver.

Be sure to check back every Thursday for another edition of Browser extension of the week.