19 Jun
No more GMail.com in Germany
Due to legal skirmish, Google’s mail service (called “GMail”in the U.S. and “Google Mail”, e.g., in Germany and the U.K.) cannot be accessed [from German ISPs] by gmail.com anymore. Instead of the GMail UI, you see that error screen shown above. Pointing your browser to mail.google.com works fine, though.
Unfortunately I’m so used to type “gmail.com” — luckily, in Firefox 3 you just need to type “gmail” into the URL input field and then choose the correct entry from the drop-down menu (if you ever have visited mail.google.com before).
Or create a bookmark “mail.google.com” and add “mail” as a keyword in the property.
then you’ll just have to enter “mail” in the bar.
to continue showing off : you can use %s to add a variable.
for example : bookmark “http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/%s ” with a keyword of “translate”
and then enter “translate speak” and it will directly open the page with answers
Is that an actual google page??? Wow. That might well be the ugliest piece of hypertext they’ve ever written
Oh, and I assume the awesomebar will take care of that for you won’t it?
Wow, thanks for the tips. Yep, AwesomeBar ist just awesome and takes care of everything
By the way they removed the whole “bummer” thing, it seems.