I fixed the impact of the last Gmail change that stopped GTDInbox loading, and it was embarrassingly trivial (just a line of code to change!). So I took the opportunity to add a new ‘emergency traffic light’ feature - an amber or red bulb that can be remotely activated if there is a problem in the future. It’s really for those who otherwise would not read the blog, as a means to reassure regular users that “we know GTDInbox may be having problems, and we are working on it”, and to help them manually download a patch.
You can manually install the new release from http://gtdinbox.com/gtdinbox_2-0-5.xpi
Update
I forget sometimes that not everyone has manually installed the XPI before - sorry!
Fortunately, it is quite straight forward. This is the really safe way of doing it:
- Download the above .xpi file to your computer
- In Firefox, click ‘Tools’ and then ‘Addons’.
- In the window that pops up, select GTDInbox and click ‘Uninstall’
- Restart Firefox
- In Firefox, click ‘File’ and then ‘Open File’
- Select the .xpi that you just downloaded
- Click ‘Open’
- The normal installation routine should now begin…
Martin Sjoblom Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Great!
Thank You once again for saving the day.
The speed of Your “saves” really compensates for GMails terrorism. A normal (M$) product would have been dead by now.
/Martin
Ryan Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
How about some instructions for how to manually install the update?
Thanks, love the program!
Ryan
Chris Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Hey Andy, how does one download an xpi file?
ikubovy Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
How do I manually install the above release
Jim Dow Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
As a recent convert to GTDInbox, I had settled on this tool yesterday and started converting everthing.
I knew if I was patient today…you would find a fix!!
Thank you much!!! Love the tool.
Larry F Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Thank you very much for the quick response. I installed 2.0.5 a couple of hours ago.
I wonder if there is another change needed as it now seems the Status and Context headings in the label sidebar are replicating themselves until I reload the whole page. Weird.
I am running Firefox 3.0b4. If there is any other information that I can provide to help with this, just ask.
Thanks.
aprigliano Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
When I first noticed the problem and read your previous blog post I thought I would look at the code of the plug in and the Gmail page.
After my eyes started bleeding, I felt a humble “thank you” was in order.
Thank you, Andy, sir. Love the tool. And I REALLY appreciate the effort.
Beaudetious Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Quick fix! Thanks. Now I suppose I’ll have to put my money where my mouth is and donate some $$.
Thanks again!
joseph Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
This is a great update, but I am now having the problem of my label headers (statuses and misc) repeating and growing over time. Only one set of the pair has labels, the others are just blank headers. Reload of gmail resets the list, but it seems that they grow again with every refresh of the labels list (perhaps on incoming mail refresh?)
Schoonzie Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Thanks, it’s working great.
There are one or two minor bugs (I don’t get the labels dashboard when composing personal mails and the Labels block on the left seems to start duplicating itself every now and then).
John Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 am
It’s worth noting that there’s a quicker way to manually install the update.
All you have to do is open the Add-ons window and drag the link onto it. The installation box will then pop up.
Great job on the extension, I really appreciate the quick fixes.
rs Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:07 am
Or you can drag and drop the downloaded xpi into your firefox window as an alternative method…
Peter Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:38 am
Just curious: why is the latest version not available through the Firefox addons update service? That’s still stuck at 2.01….
Andy Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:14 am
Larry F, Joseph, Schoonzie - thanks guys and well spotted; I’ll fix that up before the day’s over.
John and rs - i didn’t realise you could drag & drop it; that’s probably an easier way of doing it
Peter - Mozilla aren’t speedy at doing updates. They like to ponder things, let them be reviewed, etc. etc. - it’s very frustrating!
Aprigliano - the code base isn’t as crazy as it may at first look; but Gmail certainly presents… challenges
Sean Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Same problem as Larry F, Joseph, Schoonzie. thanks. Running 3.0b5 with Vista.
rs Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Andy, could you please at least make the extension directry installable from the page? i guess auto update could also be made at your site, please let me know if you need some research to be made in this topic…
Matt Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Andy,
I’m one more person who just discovered GTDInbox about two weeks ago, and *love* it. Your documentation did a great job of preparing me for how to use it, and for these apparently inevitable little crashes as gmail evolves. So, when I encountered the problems in the last couple of days, I knew to go right to the forum and see how you were progressing. By the time I finally got around to checking out the forums, many more people had already described the problems I was having, and you’d already released this update. It was a simple trick to uninstall the old, install the new version, and then get back to business as usual - or rather enhanced by this amazing ad-on.
SO, this post is just to say - thank you, very much, for a great experience so far.
- Matt
Andy Says:
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
@rs - sure, that would be great. Drop me an email if you find anything promising. The only thing is it cannot go through Mozilla, they’re very slow to update!
@Matt - thank you
rs Says:
April 4th, 2008 at 4:07 am
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